Tōichi Katō (加藤 東一, Katō Tōichi, 6 January 1916 – 3 December 1996) was a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style and board chairman of the Nitten, a significant Japanese art conference.[1] He and his older brother, Eizō Katō, have a museum dedicated to their works in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture.[2]
Biography
1916 Born in Gifu's Mitono-machi as the fifth son of a lacquerware merchant
1947 Graduates from the Tokyo Fine Arts School in Nihonga Studies; enters his first work (白暮) to the Japan Art Academy's third annual exhibition and has it selected
