About Furuya Kōrin
Lived 1875 – 1910 (aged 34–35). Furuya Kōrin was a Japanese designer, painter and gishi.
was a Japanese artist, illustrator, and designer active in the Kyoto arts and crafts circle in the Meiji period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His pseudonym references Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716), also from Kyoto, and he described himself as a "Kōrin of the modern age".
Biography Born in Kaizu, Shiga Prefecture in 1875, Kōrin studied with Suzuki Mannen, Kamisaka Sekka and Asai Chu. He won the painting category of the Shinko Bijutsu Tenrankai (Exhibition of New and Old Art) in 1897. He taught at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts from 1905, being appointed an assistant professor before his death in 1910.
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Who was Furuya Kōrin?
Japanese designer and painter
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Furuya Kōrin was born in 1875 in Shiga Prefecture.
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Furuya Kōrin died in 1910.
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Furuya Kōrin was a designer, painter and gishi.
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Furuya Kōrin was Japanese.
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