Eizo Kato studied traditional Japanese painting at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in the Nihonga style. In 1929 won the first prize at the 10th Emperor’s Exhibition and became a student of Somail Yuki in 1931. Although many of his works were lost during the air raids of the World War II, he was awarded the prestigious Japan Art Academy Award in 1959. It was during that time that he concentrated on cormorant fishing as his main subject. In 1969 he became the director of the Nitten Fine Arts Exhibition and two years later, he took part in his last major exhibition. To Kato and his younger brother Toichi, who was a painter himself, was dedicated the Memorial Art Museum in Gifu, which officially opened in 1991.
Japan