This is Kamisaka Sekka

Kamisaka Sekka (神坂 雪佳, 1866–1942) was an important artistic figure in forward twentieth-century Japan. Born in Kyoto to a Samurai family, his talents for art and design were endorsed early. He eventually associated himself bearing in mind the received Rinpa hypothetical of art. He is considered the last great proponent of this artistic tradition. Sekka then worked in lacquer and in a variety of supplementary media.

As conventional Japanese styles became unfashionable (such as Rimpa style), Japan implemented policies to promote the country’s unique artistic style by upgrading the status of traditional artists who infused their craft subsequent to a dose of modernism. In 1901, Sekka was sent by the Japanese dispensation to Glasgow where he was heavily influenced by Art Nouveau. He sought to learn more just about the Western resemblance to Japonism, and which elements or facets of Japanese art would be more handsome to the West. Returning to Japan, he taught at the newly opened Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts, experimented as soon as Western tastes, styles, and methods, and incorporated them into his otherwise received Japanese-style works. While he sticks to standard Japanese subject matter, and some elements of Rimpa painting, the overall effect is totally Western and modern. He uses gifted colors in large swaths, his images seeming on the verge of bodily patterns rather than proper pictures of a subject; the colors and patterns seem approximately to “pop”, giving the paintings an roughly speaking three-dimensional quality.