Takanori Ogisu
, styled as Takanori Oguiss, was a Japanese figurative painter who lived and worked most of his life in France. He is known by his cityscape paintings. Life and career Born in Inazawa, Takanori Ogisu was the son of a landowner in the Nagoya region. Ogisu went to Tokyo in 1920 to become a painter. He studied at the Kawabata painting school (川端 画 学校, Kawabata Gagakkō) under Fujishima Takeji, then went to the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (precursor of Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku), where he graduated in 1929. In the same year the painter Yuzo Saeki , who had come back from France, visited Ogisu together with Takeo Yamaguchi and encouraged them to study in France. Ogisu and Yamaguchi followed the advice and went to Paris. They were part of a group of Japanese painters who went to study in France, such as Foujita, Inokuma, and Sadami Yokote, in 1927. Ogisu settled in the district of Montparnasse, and frequented the painters of La Ruche, being particularly impressed by the paintings of Maurice Utrillo. In the 1930s, he occupied a studio at the foot of the Butte Montmartre, on rue Ordener, not far from his friends Inokuma and Foujita. After