Tenmyouya Hisashi (天明屋尚, born 1966 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese contemporary artist.
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Tenmyouya's unique style, he calls Neo-Nihonga, revives Japanese traditional painting as a contemporary art.
The term "Basara" is an adopted and developed version of Taro's concept of "Jomon-like" art, which is excessive in beauty yet innovative.
Implicitly Tenmyouya's art criticizes a conservative attitude which just receives an established value blindly and avoids taking a risk for new, unique things.
[8] He currently lives and works in Saitama, Japan and is represented by the Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo.