Right after the end of World War II, Fukuoka was quick to take a step toward restoration. As such, the Seibu Art Association was inaugurated in December 1945. Ueda Usaburo attempted new expressions in Japanese-style painting. Usaburo, along with four other painter colleagues, established "Shubosha" in 1947. In his liberated exchange that was not imprisoned in a master-pupil relationship while being influenced by oil painting, he developed explicit molding of his own intrinsic world. He called his works; "The Sparks of Life" will be exhibited as well as the art materials such as diary.
