Kanda Shūzō was a western style (yōga) painter from Hiroshima who studied under Nakamura Fusetsu and Ishii Hakutei. He was a member of the Ichisuikai art group. He was one of several winners of the prize at the first Nika Exhibition in 1914. He was also a member of the jury at the Hiroshima Inten Exhibition and portrayed American deaf-blind author Helen Keller. Kanda later made numerous trips abroad. In 1955, he began to draw the “atomic bomb ten installments” and was committed to the establishment of the Hiroshima Peace Art Exhibition. A major exhibition presented his work posthumously in 1978. Part of his painting Marathon from 1936 could be identified on a photo of the Japanese hall of the art exhibition in Berlin.
Japan