Artistic Career
In 1947, Higashiyama received the special prize at "Nitten," the largest competition art exhibition in Japan. This led him to pursue seeking his own style, later found as a landscape is his major motif. In 1950, he exhibited a painting "the road," in which his simplicity was well recognized. He traveled northern Europe, Germany, Austria, and China, and drew many works themed the sceneries of these countries.
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