Arishima Ikuma
Arishima Ikuma ( Japanese 有 島 生 馬 ; actually Arishima Mibuma ( 有 島 壬 生 馬 ); born November 26, 1882 in Yokohama ; † September 15, 1974 in Kamakura ) was a Japanese painter.
Arishima studied Italian at the Tokyo Foreign Language University . He became a student of Fujishima Takeji and studied painting and sculpture in Italy and France from 1905. After his return to Japan in 1910 he worked for the magazine Shirakaba , where his first stories and poems appeared. In 1913 he published his first volume of short stories Kōmori no Gotoku ( 蝙蝠 の 如 く ).
In 1914 he founded the Nikakai exhibition for oil painting with Ishii Hakutei and Tsuda Seifū . In addition to his work as a painter, he was still active as a writer. He published the novels Nan'ō no Hi (Days in Southern Europe) and Uso no Hate (End of a Lie) and the essay Bijutsu no Aki (Autumn of the Fine Arts).
Arishima's older brother Arishima Takeo and younger brother Satomi Ton were writers.
literature
- Rene Specht: Arishimi Takeo and Arishima Ikuma and their Swiss artist friends , magazine of the Swiss Asian Society, vol. 55, 2001, pp. 37–50
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SURNAME | Arishima, Ikuma |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 有 島 生 馬 (Japanese); Arishima Mibuma (real name); 有 島 壬 生 馬 (Japanese, real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese writer and painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1882 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Yokohama |
DATE OF DEATH | 15th September 1974 |
Place of death | Kamakura |