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Yumeji Takehisa

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Yumeji Takehisa
Stone monument at his birthplace
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Takehisa works (repro) in a gallery in Kurashiki

Yumeji Takehisa (竹久 夢二, Takehisa Yumeji, September 16, 1884 – September 1, 1934), was a Japanese poet and painter. Takehisa died in 1934 at the age of 49. He never studied drawing in any painting school nor under any teacher formally. He hated the concept of the 'artist', feeling they were rather pretentious which unsurprisingly upset many of the artists of his time, leading to poor reviews from the so-called elite.

Outside of the art circles, Takehisa's works acquired great popularity among ordinary people and to this day have many ardent fans in Japan and abroad. At an earlier stage in his life he intended to become a poet, but knowing he could not make a living as a poet, he began drawing pictures. He was born in Oku (now Setouchi), Okayama, Japan. He is buried in Zoshigaya Cemetery in the Ikebukuro area of Tokyo.

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