Japan: 'Distant View of Awajishima'. Oil on canvas landscape painting by Fujishima Takeji (1867-1943), 1929, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo. Fujishima Takeji (October 15, 1867 - March 19, 1943) was a Japanese painter from an ex-samurai class household in southern Kyushu. He helped to develop impressionism and Romanticism within the Western-style ('y?ga') art movement that became popular in Japanese painting during the late 19th and early 20th century. He would also be inspired by the Art Nouveau movement in his later years.