Yoshitaka Kiyama
木山義喬
He was born on January 9, 1885 in Hino district, Tottori prefecture. At the age of 19, he immigrated to San Francisco. He also won a scholarship from the New York Art Students League, and had several solo exhibitions in San Francisco. Kiyama opened his own studio in the "shuttered street" of San Francisco's Japanese neighborhood, where he lived until 1937. Kiyama became a painting teacher at an school in his hometown of Nezu, Hino district, and continued to paint and make efforts to promote local culture. He died on April 24, 1951, at the age of 66.
(Source: Wikipedia, translation)
