Hirafuku Hyakusui

After a year of studying Western style design, he began producing illustrations for the Kokumin Shimbun [ja] (The Nation), a daily newspaper that was considered to be a quasi-official mouthpiece for the government.

The following year, he was involved in a similar exhibition at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.

His mature works combined the official nihonga style with the lighter techniques of the Rinpa school.

In addition, he wrote some poetry which was published in the literary magazine Araragi and collected in an anthology called "Kanchiku" (Chinese Bamboos).

A major exhibition of his small paintings and scroll hangings was held at the Gallery Gunji (Tokyo) in April, 2019.