Kume Keiichiro

Who was Kume Keiichiro?

Kume Keiichirō was a Japanese painter of Meiji to Shōwa periods. His father was Kume Kunitake, a historian.

Born in Hizen, he studied abroad in Paris, learning techniques from Raphaël Collin in the Académie Colarossi. He lived in Paris, Barcelona and Île-de-Bréhat before going back to Japan in 1893. Back in Japan, he contributed to introducing Impressionism along with Kuroda Seiki. Later, he became a prestigious professor at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.