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[[File:Halemaumau.jpg|right|thumb|450px|''Hale Mau Mau'', by Itoh, early 20th c. Honolulu Museum of Art]]
*''Born: [[1870]]''
*''Died: 1940''

Ogura Yonesuke Itoh was a Japanese-born painter of Hawaii's Volcano School. He is generally regarded as the first artist of Japanese descent to specialize in Hawaiian subjects.

Itoh arrived in Hawaii in the 1890s, and is said to have jumped ship, remaining in the islands illegally.

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==References==
*"Hale Mau Mau," gallery label, Honolulu Museum of Arts.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/10979940214/in/dateposted-public/]

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