上村淳之さん死去、９１歳　文化勲章受章者、花鳥画の名手

　花鳥画の名手と言われた日本画家で文化勲章受章者の上村淳之（うえむら・あつし、本名淳＝あつし）さんが１日午後８時３８分、老衰のため奈良市の自宅で死去した。９１歳だった。葬儀は近親者で済ませた。喪主は次男隆司（たかし）さん。
　１９３３年、日本画家の上村松篁の長男として京都市で生まれた。祖母は美人画で有名な上村松園。５７年、京都市立美術大（現京都市立芸術大）日本画科卒。学生時代から奈良市郊外で鳥と共に暮らし、観察対象の心情を捉え、空間としての余白の役割を重視する独自の画風を築いていった。
　シギの人工ふ化に成功するなど、鳥類の専門家からも注目された。飼育する鳥は二百数十種、千数百羽にもなり、自宅は日本鳥類保護連盟から研究所の指定を受けた。
　２０１０年に完成した平城宮跡（奈良市）の大極殿復元プロジェクトに参加し、殿内の壁画を手掛けた。京都市立芸大副学長、京都市学校歴史博物館長を歴任。１３年に文化功労者に選ばれ、２０年に旭日中綬章を受章。２２年には松園、松篁に続く親子３代での文化勲章受章となった。（2024/11/03-19:05）

"Nihonga" Japanese-style painting artist Atsushi Uemura, a recipient of the Order of Culture known as a master of "kacho-ga" flower-and-bird paintings, died of old age at his home in the western Japan city of Nara on Friday. He was 91.
   He was born in the city of Kyoto, also in western Japan, in 1933 as the eldest son of noted Japanese-style painter Shoko Uemura. His grandmother was Shoen Uemura, famous for her "bijin-ga" paintings of beautiful women in Japanese art.
   He graduated from the Japanese-style painting department of Kyoto City University of Arts in 1957. From his student days, he lived with birds around him in the suburbs of Nara and developed his own style of painting that emphasizes the role of margins and captures the emotions of the subjects he observes.
   Atsushi Uemura attracted the attention of bird experts when he succeeded in artificial hatching of sandpipers. He reared more than 1,000 birds of over 200 kinds, and his house was designated as a research institute by the Japanese Society for Preservation of Birds.
   He participated in the Daigoku-den hall restoration project at the Heijo Palace site in Nara, which was completed in 2010, and worked on the murals inside the hall.