梥本 一洋

Matsumoto Ichiyo (1893–1952) was a Nihonga (Japanese-style) painter born in Kyoto. His surname is also written 松本 or 枩本. His younger brother Matsumoto Takeo was also a painter.
He graduated from the Kyoto City School of Arts and Crafts in 1912 and the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting in 1915, when he first exhibited at the Bunten (Ministry of Education Art Exhibition). Studying under Yamamoto Shunkyo in the Sanaekai (private painting school), he exhibited almost every year at the Bunten and Teiten (Imperial Art Exhibition), won special selection prizes (tokusen) at the Teiten in 1927 and 1928, and became exempt from jury screening (mukansa) in 1929. He moved from historical scenes drawn from classical literature toward a modern Yamato-e. After Shunkyo's death in 1933 he studied under Kawamura Manshu, Shunkyo's senior pupil, and served as a Teiten juror. He became a professor at his alma mater in 1936 and later exhibited at the Shin-Bunten (New Ministry of Education Art Exhibition). After the Sanaekai dissolved in 1943, he founded and chaired a new society. After the war he served as a Nitten (Japan Fine Arts Exhibition) juror and, from 1950, a councillor of its management board. He died in Kyoto in 1952.