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*''Japanese'': [[川村]] 清雄 ''(Kawamura Kiyoo)''
*''Japanese'': [[川村]] 清雄 ''(Kawamura Kiyoo)''
Kawamura Kiyoo was a ''[[yoga|yôga]]'' (Western-style) painter of the [[Meiji period]]. He is perhaps most well-known for a portrait he painted in [[1885]] of [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû]] departing [[Edo castle]] in [[1868]] after successfully convincing the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] to turn the castle over peacefully to imperial forces.
Kawamura Kiyoo was a ''[[yoga|yôga]]'' (Western-style) painter of the [[Meiji period]] who studied in France and Italy from [[1871]] to roughly [[1880]]. He is perhaps most well-known for a portrait he painted in [[1885]] of [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû]] departing [[Edo castle]] in [[1868]] after successfully convincing the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] to turn the castle over peacefully to imperial forces.
Following Katsu's death in [[1899]], Kawamura painted a work entitled "Garment as Memento" (形見の直垂) which depicts a woman in a ''[[hitatare]]'' kimono such as would be worn by pallbearers, seated before a bust of Katsu.<ref>Gallery labels, Tokyo National Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/54294234370/in/photostream/][https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/54292921547/in/photostream/]</ref>
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==References==
==References==
*Gallery labels, Edo-Tokyo Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/40251037313/in/photostream/]
*Gallery labels, Edo-Tokyo Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/40251037313/in/photostream/]
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