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*''Japanese'': [[山田]] 真山 ''(Yamada Shinzan)''

*''Japanese'': [[山田]] 真山 ''(Yamada Shinzan)''

Yamada Shinzan was an Okinawan ''[[Nihonga]]'' painter, known in particular for a painting now hung in the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, depicting a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] mission arriving back in [[Naha]] Harbor in [[1873]] after being informed in Tokyo of the [[Ryukyu Shobun|abolition of their kingdom]]. It is the only work in the Gallery by an Okinawan artist.

Yamada Shinzan was an Okinawan ''[[Nihonga]]'' painter who has been cited as representative of a late [[Meiji period]] generation of Okinawan artists trained in mainland Japan (rather than coming out of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom]] court painter tradition). Shinzan is known in particular for a 1928 painting produced for the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, depicting a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] mission arriving back in [[Naha]] Harbor in [[1873]] after being informed in Tokyo of the [[Ryukyu Shobun|abolition of their kingdom]]. It is the only work in the Gallery by an Okinawan artist.

Born in Naha, Shinzan began his artistic career as a sculptor. However, his painting of [[Ie Chochoku|Prince Ie's]] mission returning to Naha in 1873 (completed in June 1935) led to him becoming more well-known as a painter.

Born in Naha the fifth son of an aristocratic [[Shuri]] family, Shinzan was encouraged from a young age by his mother to travel to mainland Japan. There, he received a strongly ultra-nationalist education, instilling in him strongly pro-Japanese and pro-imperial attitudes. He was also told that he was descended from [[Yoshida Kenko|Yoshida Kenkô]].

 

Shinzan began his artistic career as a sculptor. However, his painting of [[Ie Chochoku|Prince Ie's]] mission returning to Naha in 1873 led to him becoming more well-known as a painter. This was his first work depicting a Ryukyuan subject.

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==References==

==References==

*Gallery labels, Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery.

*Gallery labels, Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery.

[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]

[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]

[[Category:Ryukyu]]

[[Category:Ryukyu]]