Araki Jippo

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Araki Jippo as a teacher at the Tokyo Girls' Normal School, 1912
Flowers and Birds in Four Seasons, 1917 ( Yamatane )

Araki Jippo ( Japanese 荒木 十畝 ; * October 5, 1872 ( traditionally : Meiji 5/9/3) in Ōmura , Nagasaki Prefecture as Tomonaga Teijirō ( 朝 長 悌 二郎 ); † September 11, 1944 ) was a Japanese painter, whose works are mainly assigned to the Nihonga style.

Life

In 1901 Araki got a job as a teacher at the girls' normal school Tokyo ( 東京 女子 師範学校 , Tōkyō joshi shihan gakkō ), now the Ochanomizu Women's University . In 1937 he became a member of the Japanese Academy of Arts , then under the name "Imperial Academy of Arts" ( 帝国 芸 術 院 , Teikoku geijutsuin ). He was the father of the economist Araki Mitsutaro .

painting

He was a student of the painter Araki Kampo ( 荒木 寛 畝 ), by whom he was later adopted. The painter Araki is counted as part of the old school of painting and the preservation of earlier values ​​and traditions was particularly important to him. In the Nihonga style, he mainly created landscapes, as well as pictures of flora and fauna.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 荒木 十畝 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved March 17, 2013 (Japanese).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Araki is the family name, Jippo the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Araki, Yippo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 荒木 十畝 (Japanese, stage name); Tomonaga Teijirō (maiden name); 朝 長 悌 二郎 (Japanese, maiden name); Araki Teijirō (real name); 荒木 悌 二郎 (Japanese, real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter of the Nihonga
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Ōmura , Nagasaki Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1944