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History
About Ogura Yuki
Ogura Yuki, born in Otsu city, Shiga Prefecture, had communed with painting ever since she was two years old, and her painting was rated as excellent at Otsu High School.
However, after she graduated from Nara Girls High School, she didn't prepare the way for a painter, became a teacher. When she visited Yasuda Yukihiko in 1920, she looked up to him as a teacher that lasts a lifetime, and she was with the aim of becoming a painter in addition to performing her regular duties as a teacher.
In 1926 she was accepted to the 13th Inten exhibition, and was appointed to the Dojin of the Japan Art Institute for the first time as a woman in 1932, her paintings were experiencing rapid evolution. She was awarded the Uemura Shoen Prize in 1954 and the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1987, and was given the Order of Culture in 1880.
Ogura Yukifs art world, which was derived from unconventional means and bold simplification, is in spite of a strong and plain expression, the warmth or life, even a spirit of the motif felt good. It results from the effort that she performed ascetic zen exercises.
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