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Feb 26, 1958
Yokoyama Taikan died, aged 89 in Tokyo. He helped develop the modernized “Japanese style” of painting, Nihonga. While hewing to the general flavor of traditional Japanese painting, his paintings eschew line, using instead regions of tone and color in the Western style.
Globally and nationally influential, he inspired Abanindranath Tagore of I…
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