Hasegawa Toshiyuki

Portrait of Kishida Kunio

Hasegawa Toshiyuki ( Japanese 長谷川 利 行 ; born July 9, 1891 ; died October 12, 1940 ) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Taishō and Shōwa periods .

life and work

Hasegawa was born in Yanashina (now part of Kyōto ), then attended the Taikyusha ( 耐久 舎 ) school in Yuasa in Wakayama Prefecture . 1919 published the collection of poems Mokui-shū ( 木 葦 集 ) at his own expense . In 1921 he dropped out of school, went to Tōkyō and planned to publish novels and poems.

When Tōkyō University was badly damaged in the great Kantō earthquake in 1923 , he published the volume of poetry Higishi ( 火 岸 ). In the same year he was accepted into the artists' association Shinkō yōgakai ( 新光 洋 画 会 ) with his picture "Transformers on the wayside" ( 田 端 変 電 所 , Tabata hendenjo ) . In 1924 he went to Kyoto, and devoted himself entirely to painting. He submitted pictures to the exhibition Nika-ten ( 二 科 展 ) and der Teiten ( 帝 展 ), but was not accepted.

In 1926 Hasegawa went back to Tōkyō. There the pictures “Aufgelassene Straße” ( 廃 道 , Haidō ) and “Signal am Feldrand ” ( 田 端 電信 所 , Tabata denshinjo ) were admitted to the exhibition of the Nikats. In 1927 his three pictures "Beer pub" ( 麦 酒 室 , Bīru-shitsu ), "Sake pub" ( 酒 売 場 , Sake uriba ) and "Factory with steel pipes" ( 鉄 管 の あ る 工場 , Tekkan no aru kōjō ) with the Chogyū Prize ( 樗 牛 賞 ) awarded.

From 1931 Hasegawa lived as a bohemian in Asakusa in various accommodations. In 1933 he joined the Shurushuru-kai (超 々（シ ュ ル シ ュ ル）会 ). From 1936 to 1937 he exhibited extensively in the Amashiro Gallery ( 天 城 画廊 ) in Shinjuku. In 1937 he withdrew from the Nikakai, visited the island of Ōshima with the poet Yano Fumio ( 矢野 文 夫 ; 1901–1995) , exhibited in 1938 in the Issui-kai ( 一 水 会 ). In 1939 he fell ill with stomach cancer. In 1940 he came as a penniless patient ( 窮 民 , Kyumin ) to a hospital, where he died soon afterwards.

In 2009 the painting “Cafe Paulista” was discovered. Its value was estimated at 18,000,000 yen, i.e. around 150,000 euros, a sign that the painter with his expressive style of the 1930s has not been forgotten in Japan.

photos

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  Self-Portrait, 1925

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  Café Paulista, 1928

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  Red train station, 1928

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  Surroundings of the Nippori train station , 1931

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  Shinjuku , 1937

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  Ai Mitsu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Owned by the National Museum of Modern Art , Tōkyō.

Remarks

1. ↑ The private school was founded by the entrepreneur, philanthropist and educator Hamaguchi Goryō ( 浜 口 梧 陵 ; 1820-1885).
2. ^ Teiten, long form Teikoku bijutsu tenrankai, was the annual state art exhibition.
3. ↑ Named after the writer Takayama Chogyū .

literature

• Suzuki, Toshihiko (Ed.): Hasegawa Toshiyuki . In: NIhon daihyakka zensho (Denshibukku-han), Shogakukan, 1996.
• Laurance P. Roberts: Hasegawa Toshiyuki . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Hasegawa is the family name, Toshiyuki the first name.