Abstract
This report will try to figure out Hyakutake's way of considering oil painting mainly focusing on his stay in London, from 1876 to 1878. Just before Hyakutake, another Japanese artist, Kunisawa, studied oil painting in England. That's why, in order to know more about Hyakutake, this report will take up Kunisawa's works. As a result of this study it can be said that both Hyakutake and Kunisawa developed a similar way of thinking European oil painting. In fact it can be concluded that both artists believed that the technique of European painting was truly necessary to Japan. That's probably why Hyakutake decided to continue to study oil painting in Rome and in Paris.
