10 Facts About Ikuo Hirayama

Ikuo Hirayama, was a Japanese Nihonga painter and educator.

Ikuo Hirayama produced a series of paintings depicting the introduction of Buddhism to Japan.

Ikuo Hirayama was awarded the French Legion d'honneur Order in 1996 and Japan's Order of Cultural Merit in 1998 amongst others.

Ikuo Hirayama was the President of the Tokyo University of fine Arts and Music and President of the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO.

Ikuo Hirayama was sometimes criticized for his profit making activities at the time when he held a position of President of a national university.

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Ikuo Hirayama was a patron of historical institutions and gave £500,000 pounds to the British Museum for the creation of The Hirayama Studio, a conservation studio specializing in Eastern pictorial art, which was opened in 1994 and named after him [1]Ikuo Hirayama had a studio in Kamakura, Kanagawa.

Ikuo Hirayama established the Hirayama Trainee Curator in Silk Road Coins at the British Museum.

Prix Ikuo Hirayama is awarded by the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres for distinguished contributions to scholarship on Asia.

Ikuo Hirayama actively collected material relating to the historical silk road.

Ikuo Hirayama's collection is particularly notable for its collection of Gandharan art from Pakistan and Afghanistan.