東原 方僊

Higashihara Hosen (1886–1972) was a Nihonga (Japanese-style) painter born in Fukuoka Village, Oku District, Okayama Prefecture (now part of Osafune, Setouchi City). In 1909 he moved to Kyoto and studied under Takeuchi Seiho. He first had work accepted at the 9th Bunten (Ministry of Education Art Exhibition) in 1915 and went on to exhibit repeatedly at the Bunten and the Teiten (Imperial Art Exhibition). In 1930 he showed a work at the 2nd Prince Shotoku Art Exhibition as an artist exempt from jury screening (mukansa). That same year he became a recommended artist at the 11th Teiten, and from the 12th Teiten the following year he exhibited as a mukansa artist. In 1936 he was invited to the autumn Bunten invitational exhibition, and he continued to exhibit without jury screening at the Shin-Bunten (New Ministry of Education Art Exhibition). Together with Ono Chikkyo, Ikeda Yoson and other painters from Okayama living in Kyoto, he founded a painters' society and became its central figure. He also painted for the Sanshokaku hall of Eiheiji Temple and the coffered ceiling of Minatogawa Shrine. He specialized in bird-and-flower painting.