Painter/poet Takeshita's unknown paintings found

TOKYO, Japan - A curator introduces two recently found paintings of renowned Japanese painter and poet Yumeji Takeshita (1884-1934) at the Takeshita Yumeji Museum in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2014. Takeshita reportedly gave the paintings to a Japanese expatriate in Germany during a trip to Europe from 1932 to 1933.

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