Shunyo-kai art society (Japanese: 春陽会, romanized: Shun'yōkai, lit.
'Spring Sun Society'),[1] is a Japanese art society founded in 1922 by the Western-style (yōga) artists from the painting department of Nihon Bijutsuin (English: Japan Visual Arts Academy).
They annually hold a large scale exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
[3] The Shunyo-kai art society started in 1922, after a group of Nihon Bijutsuin art students rebelled against the lessons and wanted to focus on the Western-style (yōga).
[4] The founding group members from Nihon Bijutsuin include Gen’ichirō Adachi, Noboru Hasegawa, Yamamoto Kanae, Misai Kosugi, Hakuyō Kurata, Morita Tsunetomo, and Ryūzaburō Umehara;[4] and the founding guest members include Ishii Tsuruzō, Keishi Imazeki, Ryūsei Kishida, Shōhachi Kimura, Sadao Tsubaki, Kazumasa Nakagawa, Shōzō Yamazaki, and Tetsugorō Yorozu.