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Ikuo Hirayama (''Hirayama Ikuo'' 平山 郁夫, 15 June 1930 - 2 December 2009), was a Japanese Nihonga painter. Born in Setoda-chō, Hiroshima Prefecture, he was famous in Japan for Silk Road paintings of dreamy desert landscapes in Iran, Iraq, and China. == Biography == In 1952, he graduated from the Tokyo School of Art, or what is today's Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (popularly known as "Geidai"), and became a disciple of Maeda Seison. Hirayama also served as President of his alma mater twice (1989–95 and 2001–05). He produced a series of paintings depicting the introduction of Buddhism to Japan. A hibakusha, he portrayed the A-bomb attack on Hiroshima. He was also active in the preservation of the cultural heritage of the world (e.g., the Bamiyan Buddhas) and is internationally appreciated for his efforts in this sphere. Hirayama was awarded the French Légion d'honneur Order in 1996 and Japan's Order of Cultural Merit in 1998 amongst others. He was sometimes criticized for his profit making activities at the time when he held a position of President of a national university. Some (would-be) connoisseurs even cast doubts upon the authenticity of his highly profitable artworks, claiming that his wife and others made them under his name. He was a patron of historical institutions and gave £500,000 pounds to the British Museum for the creation of a conservation studio specializing in Eastern pictorial art,〔Silk Road Art and Archaeology Special Volume: Studies in Silk Road Coins and Culture, Kamakura 1997〕 which was opened in 1994 and named after him () He had a studio in Kamakura, Kanagawa. There is a museum dedicated to the artist in Setoda which also has an English Web site at (). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ikuo Hirayama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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