The word 'Nihon-ga' was adopted from the translation of the term 'Japanese painting' for the first time when Fenollosa gave his lecture on "The New Theory of Art" at the Dragon Pond Society (Ryuchikai) in 1882.
フェノロサが1882年に龍池会で行った講演『美術真説』で使ったJapanesepaintingの翻訳が「日本画」という言葉の初出である。