Few Japanese artists have received the extremes of acclaim and censure that Leonard Foujita (Tsuguharu Fujita, 1886-1968) has. Based in Paris from 1913 he became Japan's only painter of international significance at that time, and by the 1920s, he commanded prices comparable to Picasso. As a leading and enthusiastic painter for Japan's military during World War II, he was subsequently vilified in the postwar manhunts seeking ideological complicity.