A Life Between Two Worlds Born in 1881 in Tama City, Japan, Morita Tsunetomo lived a life defined by the shifting boundaries between Western and Japanese traditions. His early years were shaped by private education before he entered the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, where he studied under Koyama Shōtarō and Nakamura Fusetsu. This period of formal training provided the foundation for his initial pursuit of yōga, or Western-style painting.…