Matsubayashi Keigetsu ( Japanese 松林桂月 ; born 18th August 1876 in Hagi ( Yamaguchi Prefecture ); d. 22. May 1963 ) was a Japanese painter in Nanga style during the Meiji , Taisho and early Showa period . Matsubayashi was born as Itō Atsushi ( 伊藤 篤 ). Promoted by a bank director in his area he could go to Tōkyō. There he studied painting from 1894 under Noguchi Yūkoku ( 野 口 幽谷 , 1825-1898). He developed, influenced by the Meiji period, the style of Nanga painting in some decorative direction, with his academic education something in contradiction to the original principles of this art direction. In 1896 Matsubayashi and others founded the Nihon Nanshū Gakai Artists' Association ( 日本 南宗 画 会 ). He exhibited in the exhibition series of the Ministry of Culture, called "Bunten" ( 文 展 ) for short , and in the successor organizations "Teiten" ( 帝 展 ) and "Nitten" ( 日 展 ). [A 1] In 1919 he became Juror der Teiten, 1932 member of the Japanese Academy of Arts and in 1944 he became an "artist at the imperial court" ( 帝室 技 芸 員 , Teishitsu gigei-in ). In 1958 Matsubayashi received the Japanese Cultural Order . In 1961, Matsubayashi became president of Nihon Nanga-in ( 本 南 画院 ), the successor to Nanshu Gakai.
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