Kokuta Suda（須田剋太）
1906 - 1990
Japanese Western-style painter. Born in Saitama. Urawa painter. He was initially a figurative painter and won many special prizes at the National Exhibition of Japan, but after 1949, he moved on to abstract paintings. His powerful, unrestrained touch has been described as characteristic of his work. He was in charge of illustrations for Ryotaro Shiba's travelogue collection "Kaido yuku" (On the Road), and also accompanied Ryotaro on his research trips. He loved the Zen world of Dogen. In 1934, the year after he was selected for the Bunten Exhibition, Manjiro Terauchi visited his studio by the Bessho Swamp in Urawa and encouraged him to join the Kofukai[1]. He also joined the Musashinokai, a group of Manjiro Terauchi's students. One of the Urawa painters, Akimasa Satomi of the Kofukai, was at the same Kumagaya Junior High School, and their studios in Bessonuma were next to each other. He also had contact with Yomota Souhame and Hayashi Waei.