Japan: 'Portrait of Tokugawa Yoshinobu'. Oil on canvas painting by Kawamura Kiyoo (1852-1934), c. 1880s-1890s, Tokugawa Memorial Foundation, Tokyo

Tokugawa Yoshinobu, also known as 'Keiki', was the 15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. He was part of a movement which aimed to reform the aging shogunate, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

Kawamura Kiyoo (1852-1934) was a Japanese painter from Edo. He became a follower of the yōga (Western-style) of painting, and journeyed for a time through France and Italy. He aided in the formation of the Meiji Bijutsukai in 1889, the first art association in Japan championing western-style painting.

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Kawamura Kiyoo (1852-1934)

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