was meant as a statement for peace during the Cold War in the 1980s. Murals In 1953, he was selected to paint 27 fusama-e murals for a Japanese house, called Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens, which was being constructed in Nagoya in 1953 for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Higashiyama, who had been a classmate of architect Junzo Yoshimura, was chosen above a number of other well-known Japanese painters such as Maeda Seison and Yokoyama Taikan, to paint mountain scenes with black ink on the fusuma and the tokonoma alcove. The Shofuso was moved to Philadelphia in 1958 where the murals were on view until they were destroyed by vandals in 1974. In 1960, he painted a large mural entitled "Sun, Moon, and The Four Seasons", for the state dining room the Tōgū Palace of the Crown Prince. A second imperial commission followed, resulting in the 1968 mural, "Tide at Daybreak" (Asaake no Ushio), which is part of the Nami-no-ma hall of Tokyo Imperial Palace. This large painting is apparently modeled on the rocks of the Oumi Island in Yamaguchi prefecture. The dimensions of the painting are approximately 3.8 meters in height and about 14.3 meters horizontally. He also painted several murals of Japanese and Chinese landscapes, for the Tōshōdai-ji temple, completed in 1975 and 1980. Honors 1950 Appointed as a member of the Nitten Exhibition Jury. 1956 Received the Japan Art Academy Award for "Twilight”. 1965 Appointed as a member of Japan Art Academy, and accepted the post of Shin-Nitten Exhibition director. 1968 Appointed as a member of the Specialist Committee of the Council for the Protection of Foreign Treasures. 1969 Awarded the Mainichi Art Award for "Tide at Daybreak". 1969 Awarded the Order of Cultural Merit and commended as a Person of Cultural Merit. 1974 Became Chairman of the Board at Kaiso-Nitten. 1975 Commissioned by the Emperor to paint "Spring Daybreak" as a state gift to Queen Elizabeth II. 1984 Selected to join as a member of the Federal Republic of Germany's Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste. 1992 Awarded the UNESCO Picasso Gold Medal. 1990 Higashiyama Kaii Gallery was opened in Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum. 1994 Higashiyama Kaii Art Gallery was opened in Ichikawa City Life Learning Center. 2005 Sakaide Kagawa Prefectural Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Art Museum was opened. See also Yasushi Sugiyama Togyū Okumura Maeda Seison List of