Matsuoka Hisashi

Matsuoka Hisashi (松岡 寿, 5 March 1862, Okayama Prefecture – 28 April 1944, Tokyo) was a Japanese painter in the yōga style.

In 1876, he was enrolled at the new Technical Fine Arts School ((now the Tokyo Institute of Technology), operated by the Ministry of Industry, where he studied for two years under the Italian artist, Antonio Fontanesi.

When Fontanesi returned to Italy in 1878, he and several other students including Asai Chū, were unhappy with his replacement and left the school to create their own group, the "Association of the Eleventh" (十一次会), so called because that was the eleventh year of the Meiji era.

After that, he devoted himself almost exclusively to training young artists; teaching at several institutions, including the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, the Faculty of Architecture at Tokyo University as well as at the Meiji Association school.

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