Hashime Murayama was employed as a technician at Weill Cornell Medicine for several years, preparing slides, doing microscope drawings, and making models for anatomical study.

[3] Hashime Murayama also pursued a career as an artist, often visiting the New York Aquarium where he painted fish among the plants and rocks of their environment.

He paid close attention to details such as the exact number of scales on a fish, and combined this scientific accuracy with vivid artistic treatments of color and light.

[1] As an artist at National Geographic, he paid meticulous attention to his drawings, adding his distinct style to them and making them instantly popular.

[4] The 1926 Washington, D.C. directory shows that “Hashime Murayama, artist” was the owner of a new house at 2436 37th Street, NW, in the brand-new neighborhood called Glover Park.

[1] After a career of over twenty years as an artist at National Geographic, Murayama left (or was fired) in September 1941 because he was an immigrant.

[3] In 1952, Murayama’s original watercolor paintings were used as models by diagnosticians in the largest screening trial to be sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, involving nearly 150,000 women.

[1] A May 2019 Google doodle of Georgios Papanikolaou shows him holding one of the illustrations of cancer cells drawn by Hashime Murayama.