Naked General

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Kiyoshi Yamashita every Japanese knows about him made into movies, TV series, composed of songs, books and manga.

Kyoshi was born in 1922 in Tokyo. Children in elementary school taunted underdeveloped baby with speech, for which he eventually stabbed one of his classmates with a knife.
At age 12, parents send Kyoshi to a special school, where he began to paint small pieces of colored paper (the Japanese art of breakage application "Chigiri-e"). Paints Kyoshi at first did not recognize and eaten as candy. Boy's talent was soon noticed the famous Japanese psychiatrist Shikibu. Psychiatrist organizes the first exhibition of the patient comes first to Kyoshi fame.
In 1940, the 18-year-old Kiyoshi runs away from the special school for fear of the army medical board. In 1943, the nurses noticed it on a part-time diner and take a commission. Kiyoshi declared unfit for service and released.
14, he will wander around Japan photographically laying seen in his paintings landscapes, at what was then the equivalent of IQ=68. Year-round in summer kimono yukata (almost naked for the Japanese), with a backpack of colored paper and a cup of rice, Kyoshi, asked the counter to get to the "General Tokyo" or to "Lieutenant General Osaka" by assigning military ranks cities.
After the war, "The Naked General" is popularly known. Opened a permanent exhibition of works Kiyoshi leading publications arguing for the right to publish his drawings on their covers. The artist continues to wander and beg alms, sometimes unable to answer who he was and where. The Japanese government puts to Kyoshi bodyguard, from which the wanderer periodically runs away, staggering through the streets, dirty, ragged, living on alms, until it went out and brought back and put in order.

The world will know about the "Japanese Van Gogh" in the 60's - a psychiatrist Shikaba Kiyoshi organizes a 40-day tour of Europe, where the artist will bring a lot of memories in the pictures.

Kyoshi died of a stroke in 1971 at the age of 49.
17 years (1980-1997) in Japan will go to the popular TV series "Notes wandering Naked General".

Experts continue to argue about whether "Japanese Van Gogh" given a photographic memory or his talent island preserved and developed after a severe intestinal infection with an unknown neurological disorders at age three. Psychiatrist Shikib so would speak of his patient: "Idiot-genius - a mystery and challenge to science."

Kiyoshi himself used to say to children with disabilities: "Do not think of yourself as well as anyone. Believe in yourself and be the generals."