As an alumni association and an art exchange group for the members of the former “Fanglan Painting Club,” the Fanglan Art Association was founded in 1974 in Taiwan by eight alumni (e.g. painters Zheng Shi-Fan and Li Shih-Chao) of Taihoku Second Normal School under Japanese rule (now National Taipei University of Education) in memory of their Japanese mentors Ishikawa Kinichiro and Ohara Hitoshi. In the beginning, the association was named “Ichiiori-kai” after Ishikawa’s alias.[1][2]