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One of his works was accepted by a Salon in [[1891]], and two years later, his painting ''Morning Toilette'' was shown at ''the'' Salon, the Salon des Beaux-Arts. ''Morning Toilette'' would cause quite a scandal when shown in Tokyo shortly afterwards, being one of the first full nudes (in the highly realistic Western style & oil painting medium) ever displayed in a Japanese art exhibition.
One of his works was accepted by a Salon in [[1891]], and two years later, his painting ''Morning Toilette'' was shown at ''the'' Salon, the Salon des Beaux-Arts. ''Morning Toilette'' would cause quite a scandal when shown in Tokyo shortly afterwards, being one of the first full nudes (in the highly realistic Western style & oil painting medium) ever displayed in a Japanese art exhibition.
He took on students, and continued to a prominent presence in the Japanese art world, coming to be known as "the Grand Old Man of Western painting in Japan" prior to his death in 1924.<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 206. </ref>
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*Harada, Minoru. Akiko Murakata (trans.). ''Meiji Western Painting''. New York: Weatherhill, 1974. pp73-74.
*Harada, Minoru. Akiko Murakata (trans.). ''Meiji Western Painting''. New York: Weatherhill, 1974. pp73-74.
*''Japan & Paris''. Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2004. p32.
*''Japan & Paris''. Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2004. p32.
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