Shizuka Murayama Explained

was a Japanese-French yōga painter.

Born in Ohara Village (present day Itako), Ibaraki Prefecture, Murayama started to study watercolor painting under Susumu Kobori. After moving to Tokyo, he enrolled at the private .

In the latter half of the 1950s, he moved to France,^[1] the citizenship of which he acquired in 1981.^[2]

Awards

Prix Charles de Gaulle (1962).
Médaille d'honneur du travail (vermeil) and Honorary citizen of Paris (1991)
Honorary citizen of Itako, Ibarako Prefecture, Japan (1991)
Grande Medaille d'Or of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (1995)
Special Award for People of Merit of Ibaraki Prefecture (1996)
Chevalier (knight) of the Legion of Honour (1997)

References

Web site: http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?g=obt_30&k=2013102401023. ja:洋画家の村山密氏死去. Jiji Press. Japanese. October 25, 2013. dead. https://archive.today/20131024230823/http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?g=obt_30&k=2013102401023. October 24, 2013.
Web site: http://www.city.itako.lg.jp/index.php?code=598. ja:村山密氏. www.city.itako.lg.jp. Japanese. October 25, 2013.