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==History==

The Nihon Bijutsuin was founded by [[Okakura Tenshin]] at the [[Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music]] in 1898, together with a group of artists, who included [[Hashimoto Gahō]], [[Yokoyama Taikan]], [[Kanzan Shimomura|Shimomura Kanzan]], [[Hishida ShunsoShunsō]] and several others, as a reaction against stylistic restrictions of the government-sponsored [[Japan Art Academy|Bunten]] exhibitions. Nihon Bijutsuin moved with Okakura Tenshin to Izura, Ibaraki (now the city of [[Ibaraki, Ibaraki|Ibaraki]]) in 1906. However, Okakura was soon recruited by [[Ernest Francisco Fenollosa]] to assist in his efforts to introduce Chinese and Japanese arts to the western world via the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]], and soon lost interest in guiding the new organization. When Okakura died in 1913, the group dissolved.

Nihon Bijutsuin was resurrected a year later in 1914 under Yokoyama Taikan, who relocated it back to [[Yanaka]], Tokyo. In 1920, separate sections were established for [[Japanese sculpture]] and for western-style ([[yōga (art)|yōga painting]]), These separate sections were abolished in 1960, and currently the Institute is currently devoted exclusively to ''Nihonga'' painting.