IKEDA Yoson, who was born in Okayama prefecture, is one of the masters of Japanese painting. He played an important part in the National Academy and awarded the Order of Culturre.
 Yoson started his career as a watercolor painter though, later he changed his way to Japanese paintings. After Influenced by Munch and Goya, he was estimated by works, which based on a new interpretation of YAMATOE(traditional Japanese paintings),then his works show his devotion to UTAGAWA Hiroshige (a renowned UKIYOE painter in Edo era).After W.W.2,Yoson painted fantastic and surrealistic works, afterwards he established his original and witty style in his landscape paintings. In his later days, he admired TANEDA Santoka,a traveling haiku poet,and devoted to create Santoka series expressing the world of Santoka's haiku.
Yoson loved traveling and pursued the beauties of nature in his lifetime. Humor,poetry and a touch of pathos in his works still fascinates audience.
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