Chiura obata biography definition
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Obata Chiura (小圃千浦 November 18, 1885 - October 6, 1975) was born Obata Zoroku in Okayama, Japan and grew up in Sendai.
Chiura obata biography definition
He was raised by an older brother, Obata Rokuichi, a fifth-generation artist of the samurai class. Beginning at seven years of age, Obata studied painting in sumi (black ink: 墨) with the Sendai painter Moniwa Chikusen. By the age of fourteen, when he ran away from home to avoid military school, he apprenticed for about three years with the Tosa-school artist Murata Tanryô (1874-1940; 邨田丹陵), and later with the Nihonga artist and printmaker Terazaki Kôgyô (1866-1919; 寺崎広業) and Nihonga-style painter Gahô Hashimoto (1835-1908; 橋本雅邦).
Obata also had training in Western-style painting, an influence that was to last his entire career. After taking the name Chiura ("Thousand Bays": 千浦) inspired by the landscape near Sendai, he emigrated first to Seattle and then to San Francisco in 1903.