Showa Art Sanzo Wada, South Wind (1907) Tsuguharu Foujita, portrait, Ink and watercolor on paper Ogura Yuki, Bathing Women, 1938, Tokyo Museum of Modern Art Japanese painting in the early Shōwa period was largely dominated by Yasui Sotaro and Umehara Ryuzaburo, who introduced the concepts of pure art and abstract painting to the Nihonga tradition, and thus created a more interpretative versio..