Early Life and Artistic Beginnings Tensen Ogyu, born Ōgyū Moritoshi on April 28, 1882, in the tranquil city of Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, embarked on a path that would see him become a pivotal figure in early 20th-century Japanese painting. His origins lay within a family deeply rooted in Shinto priesthood—a heritage that instilled in him an early reverence for nature and tradition, qualities that would profoundly shape…