Artist History
Kobayakawa Shusei (1885-1974) was a Japanese painter from the Meiji to Showa periods. He was born in Hyogo Prefecture. After dropping out of Kyoto Municipal Painting College, he studied under Taniguchi Kokyo and later Yamamoto Shunkyo, and joined the Sanae-kai. During the war, he painted
wartime records as a war artist, but after the war he worked on religious paintings.