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*''Born: [[1856]]''
*''Died: 1934''
*''Japanese'': 大熊氏広 ''(Ookuma Ujihiro)''
Ôkuma Ujihiro was among the first Japanese sculptors to work in the Western style, in bronze and stone. He is known in particular for a statue of [[Omura Masujiro|Ômura Masujirô]] at [[Yasukuni Shrine]], the first Western-style public bronze sculpture in Japan. Ôkuma also produced three sculptures of [[Goto Shinpei|Gotô Shinpei]], 3rd [[Chief of Home Affairs (Taiwan)|Chief of Home Affairs]] on [[Taiwan]], installed in [[1911]]-[[1912]] in the cities of [[Taipei]], [[Taichung]], and [[Tainan]].
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==References==
*Suzuki Eka, "Building Statues of Japanese Governors: Monumental Bronze Sculptures and Colonial Cooperation in Taiwan under Japanese Rule," presentation at 2013 UCSB International Conference on Taiwan Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 7 Dec 2013.
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