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Tadashi Nakayama (中山 正, Nakayama Tadashi, born 1927 Niigata, Niigata, died 2014) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, working in a style that combines influences from traditional Japanese ukiyo-e prints and Western painting.

He studied oil painting at Tama Art College but left in 1947. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

From 1962 to 1965 he lived in Milan, Italy and then England. ^{[1] [4]} He taught at Bath Academy of Arts. ^[1]

Motifs in his work include butterflies, horses, cranes, and girls with long flowing hair. ^{[1] [5] [6] [7] [8]} Some of his later pieces were inspired by Persian, Byzantine and Renaissance styles. ^[3]

His catalogue raisonné is Tadashi Nakayama: His Life and Work, by Kappy Hendricks and Marshall Hendricks. ^{[5] [9]}

His work is held in several museums, including the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, ^{[10][ failed verification]} the Minneapolis Institute of Art, ^[11] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ^[12] the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, ^[13] the National Museum of Asian Art, ^[14] the Carnegie Museum of Art, ^[15] the Seattle Art Museum, ^{[16][ failed verification]} the University of Michigan Museum of Art, ^[7] the Brooklyn Museum, ^[17] the Portland Art Museum, ^[6] the Indianapolis Museum of Art, ^[8] the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, ^[18] the Harvard Art Museums, ^[19] and the Honolulu Museum of Art. ^{[20][ failed verification]}

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