The Western style paintings of Wada Eisaku

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We're familiar with the influence Japanese prints had on Western artists, particularly the impressionists, but less familiar to us is the influence that Western art had on Japanese artists. The school of Japanese artists that embraced and experimented with Western visual styles was yōga. 

One of the main practitioners of yōga was Wada Eisaku who was active from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century. Along with being a very active painter, he eventually became a professor at the Department of Western-Style Painting at the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts. These are a few of his works, enjoy them.

Wada Eisaku