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 .

Shizuka Murayama

In the latter half of the 1950s, he moved to France, the citizenship of which he acquired in 1981.

Shizuka Murayama

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)

Shizuka Murayama

References

Biography at Itako City official website

Interview in France News Digest

1918 births

2013 deaths

Japanese painters

French painters

Knights of the Legion of Honour