Kaita Murayama was a Taisho era, Japanese author and painter. He was educated at the Fine Arts Academy in Tokyo and was influenced by Western art styles. One of his self-portraits appears in the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in Tsu Mie Prefecture, Japan, he painted this self-portrait in 1918 before his untimely death in Tokyo, 1919.



![日本の水彩画 19 村山槐多 [Nihon no Suisaiga 19: Kaita Murayama]](https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/111x148-675b3b2743c83e96e2540d2929d5f4d2.png)