page_title: Hashime Murayama
hierarchical_section_title: Hashime Murayama
caption_attribution_description: Picture of scientific illustrator and artist Hashime Murayama, published in the Washington Star, February 26, 1939, p.C10 (photo), synopsis: The eldest son of a samurai family who forsook the warrior inclinations of his distinguished forebears. Came to US with Count Aoki, Japanese Ambassador. At Ward’s Island worked under Dr. Adolph Meyer. At Cornell he made, stained and mounted slides for histology and embryology. His patent was for a method of preserving spinal nerve anatomy. In summer he studied art at Metropolitan Museum, sketching at the NY Aquarium. Selected to arrange the Japanese Armor Hall at Metropolitan. Illustrating a fish study for the Miami Beach Aquarium brought him to the attention of Dr. John Oliver Gorce, vice-president of the National Geographic Society, who suggested his appointment. He married the daughter of his Kyoto art professor. Ken is a news cameraman. Copyright not renewed.
context_page_description: Hashime Murayama was a Japanese American painter and scientific illustrator. He was best known for his exquisite paintings of birds, insects, fish, mammals, and other wildlife. Employed by the National Geographic Society from 1921 to 1941, his work was featured in The National Geographic Magazine.
  During World War II he was interned for being Japanese. Despite this, he worked with George Papanicolaou at Cornell University, creating images of cancer cells that were used to train diagnosticians and prove the effectiveness of the Pap smear as a life-saving cancer screening method.
context_section_description: Hashime Murayama (1879–1954) was a Japanese American painter and scientific illustrator.  He was best known for his exquisite paintings of birds, insects, fish, mammals, and other wildlife. Employed by the National Geographic Society from 1921 to 1941, his work was featured in The National Geographic Magazine.
  During World War II he was interned for being Japanese. Despite this, he worked with George Papanicolaou at Cornell University, creating images of cancer cells that were used to train diagnosticians and prove the effectiveness of the Pap smear as a life-saving cancer screening method.
caption: Hashime Murayama, 1939
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