User:Yuna Seki/sandbox

He was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1854. He emigrated to San Francisco in 1880 at the invitation of a department-store owner and eventually became one of the preeminent Japanese artists working in the United States. [1] He later relocated to Pasadena, California, where he received commissions to decorate the interiors of Art and Craft houses whose architecture, such as the famed Greene and Greene bungalows, often reflected Japanese aesthetics. He was active until 1910 and died in San Diego on April 26, 1912.[2]