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Chiura Obata (小圃 千浦 Obata Chiura^?, Nov. 18, 1885 - 1975), Deaths Grave Pass 1930

Chiura Obata was a Japanese-American artist.  A self-describled “roughneck”, Obata came to the United States in 1903, at age 17. After initially working as an illustrator and commercial decorator, he had a successful career as a painter, following a 1927 summer spent in the Sierra Nevada, and was a faculty member in the Art Department at the University of California at Berkeley from 1932 to 1953, interrupted by World War II, when he spent over a year in internment camps.