■What is "the old school"?■ The term "the old school" indicates the artists and their works in the first half of the Meiji era. "The old school" artists tried to represent things realistically and three-dimensionally using traditional European painting chiaroscuro and perspective techniques, striving for a new viewpoint. Main artists of "the old school" ・TAKAHASHI Yuichi ・HYAKUTAKE Kaneyuki ・KUNISAWA Shinkuro ・YAMAMOTO Hosui ・GOSEDA Yoshimatsu ・ASAI Chu ・KOYAMA Shotaro ・MATSUOKA Hisashi ・HARADA Naojiro ・HARA Busho Foriegn artists influencing "the old school" ・FONTANESI, Antonio ・WIRGMAN, Charles		left：Beauty(Courtesan）,TAKAHASHI Yuichi right：Harvest, ASAI Chu　below：Puppet Theater, GOSEDA Yoshimatsu