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A contemporary of Toshimitsu Imai, Hisao Domoto was born in Kyoto and went on to study Nihonga (traditional style Japanese painting) at Kyoto Municipal Art School. He exhibited in the Nihonga section at Nitten in 1948-1954, winning the Grand Prix in 1951 and 1953. In 1955, he moved to Paris and started to paint in oil, having a one-man show at Galerie Stadler in Paris in 1957. Throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s he exhibited widely in Europe, USA and Japan.