仭What is "the old school"?仭 The term "the old school" indicates the artists and their works in the first half of the Meiji era. "The old school" artists tried to represent things realistically and three-dimensionally using traditional European painting chiaroscuro and perspective techniques, striving for a new viewpoint. Main artists of "the old school" 丒TAKAHASHI Yuichi 丒HYAKUTAKE Kaneyuki 丒KUNISAWA Shinkuro 丒YAMAMOTO Hosui 丒GOSEDA Yoshimatsu 丒ASAI Chu 丒KOYAMA Shotaro 丒MATSUOKA Hisashi 丒HARADA Naojiro 丒HARA Busho Foriegn artists influencing "the old school" 丒FONTANESI, Antonio 丒WIRGMAN, Charles		left丗Beauty(Courtesan乯,TAKAHASHI Yuichi right丗Harvest, ASAI Chu丂below丗Puppet Theater, GOSEDA Yoshimatsu