YU KURAMITSU   OIL PAINTER

I like Russia, Russian people and Russian nature.

I also have been self-researching the Japanese interned in the Soviet Union in 1945. 
Then, I met Tanaka Takeshi who was interned in the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1949. 
He returned to Japan, established a publishing company in Tokyo and published industrial publications “造” (Zou). 

At his age of 68, he moved to Khabarovsk, Russia. He was the only one who returned to Russia out of 600,000 Japanese internees.

He was a musician as well. He loved Russian people and often gave a concert for Russian people with his synthesizer “Spiron”. 

I respect the way he lived. 
His sprits are reflected in these paintings…