Word: tsugouharu
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...ring on his finger; when wealthier, he capped the radiator of his chauffeur-driven automobile with a Rodin bronze. He arrived in France from Japan in 1913 wearing a purple morning coat and a pith helmet; eleven years later he was the most fashionable painter in Paris. Tsugouharu Foujita, now 79, is a living souvenir of the days when the School of Paris was in kindergarten...
Paris' best-known set of male bangs has been replaced by a stiff military haircut. From Tokyo last week came word that Tsugouharu Foujita, famed 55-year-old Japanese painter of cats and catlike women, has left Montparnasse for his native land, there joined the Army to paint pictures of air battles. Gone with his bangs is the costume which won him Deauville's vote for its best-dressed man in 1929-leopard-skin trousers, grey suspenders, no shirt, silk hat. Gone also are the fashionable ladies who paid through the pretty nose for his paintings. The Japanese...
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