KUMAGAI Naohiko

After studying Shijo school painting under Okamoto Shigehiko, Kumagai Naohiko continued to study painting on his own while fulfilling his duties as a samurai of the Hiroshima domain.He excelled in landscape and portrait painting, and his use of ink and shades of color to express space and capture surfaces exudes a certain elegance.In the center of the screen are three people with happy expressions.The man carrying the wood and the axe is the king.