MATSUOKA EIKYU (松岡映丘) Matsuoka Eikyu (松岡映丘), born July 9, 1881, in Tahara-mura, Jintō-gun, Hyōgo prefecture – present-day Fukusaki-machi, Kanzaki-gun – was a Japanese painter whose dedication to reviving the Yamato style cemented his place as one of the most important figures in twentieth-century art. He carried on the legacy of his Confucian scholar father, Inoue Michiyasu, who himself pursued excellence in both scholarship and artis…