Soyama Sachihiko


Soyama Sachihiko was a Japanese painter of the yōga movement in the Meiji era. The characters of his given name may also be read Yukihiko; later he was known as Ōno Yoshiyasu.

Biography

Born in Kagoshima, he studied in Tokyo at the Technical Fine Arts School under Achille San Giovanni and Giovanni Vincenzo Cappelletti. Later he became assistant professor in the Tokyo Imperial University School of Technology. He also opened his own school, the Daikōkan. His students included Fujishima Takeji, Wada Eisaku, Okada Saburōsuke, Miyake Kokki, Nakazawa Hiromitsu, and Yakazaki Chiyoji.