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                          SAKAI HIDEMARO (Yokoyama Taikan)

He was born on 2nd november 1868 in Japan, in Mito city. His father was a ex samurai of the Mito family.

He was adopted for his mother's family, thanks for that he was a nickname "Yokoyama Taikan"; he was very comfortable in Mito, but he moved to Tokio with his family in 1878.

He studied at the Hibiya High School, he was interested in the English Language and oil painting.

He was the greatest Japanese painter of Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting). His paintings are about the history of Japan.

In 1931, Mr. Taikan was recognized an artist of the Imperial Household.

In World War II (1939 to 1945) he was president of the Japanese Patriotic Art Society.

On 26 February 1958, Yokoyama Taikan died in Tokyo at 89 years; his house is now open to the public as the "Yokoyama Taikan Memorial Museum". 

His brain is preserved at the University of Tokyo Medical School.

KEIKO OKAMI

She was born on 15TH August 1859 in Japan. She was born on Nishida Keiko, when she was young, lived in Pensilvania. She was the first medical woman. She was the first woman to had grade of medicine in  Occidental university afterwards She was a English teacher at Sakurai girls school when she was 25 years old married to art teacher Senkichiro Okami. They travelled to the United States and there Keiko studied medicine in Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. 

When She arrived in Japan worked in her own hospital, “Jikei”. Nowadays it is a school of medicine.