Hashiguchi Goyō

Hashiguchi Goyō

Hashiguchi Goyō ( Japanese 橋 口 五 葉 ; * December 21, 1880 in Kagoshima , Kagoshima Prefecture ; † February 24, 1921 ) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, the first of the Shin-hanga direction.

life and work

He was born Hashiguchi Kiyoshi ( 橋 口 清 ) in Kagoshima as the son of a traditional style painter. Hashiguchi became interested in the Kanō school at an early age and went to Kyoto in 1899 to study under Hashimoto Gahō. However , he was persuaded to study Western painting by the then influential painter Kuroda Seiki , who hails from the same area. Hashiguchi therefore went to Tokyo and studied at the private art school Hakuba-kai, from which he graduated in 1905. His older brother, the painter Hashiguchi Yasuo, introduced him to the writer Natsume Sōseki . He commissioned him to design the cover for the novel Ich der Kater ( Wagahai wa neko dearu ), which appeared in 1905. Hashiguchi then designed almost 70 other book covers in the Art Nouveau style.

Hashiguchi's paintings were shown in a 1907 Tokyo Industrial Exhibition and in the first exhibition organized by the Ministry of Culture , Mombushō Bijutsu Tenrankai , but given that he had only moderate success, he gave up oil painting.

In 1911, Hashiguchi won the competition for a poster for the Mitsukoshi clothing store depicting a modern Japanese woman. At the time, the publisher and art dealer Watanabe Shōzaburō ( 渡邊 庄三郎 ; 1885–1962) was looking for artists who could transfer the traditional Japanese woodcut of the 18th century ( Ukiyo-e ) into the present. So he got in touch with Hashiguchi, whose poster he had noticed. Hashiguchi then created the template for the first print of the new kind ( Shin-hanga ) with the title "In the bathroom" (浴場 の 女（ゆ あ み）, yuami ), which was implemented by Watanabe's colleague Takano Shichinosuke in 1915 with several printing plates. Art Nouveau influences can also be found in his Shin-hanga, for example in his print “Woman combing hair” ( 髪 梳 け る 女 , Kamisukeru onna ) from 1920.

But to have control over the printing process himself, Hashiguchi had the following prints made in his own workshop. In the years 1916 to 1917 he published the twelve-volume collection Ukiyo-e fūzoku Yamato nishiki-e ( 浮世 風俗 や ま と 錦 繪 ) with hundreds of miniaturized reprints by earlier masters. In addition, he created other original prints of beautiful women ( bijinga ). Other prints that were unfinished at his untimely death were published by his family.

photos

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  Binding of Ich der Kater , 1905

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  Mitsukoshi, 1911

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  “In the bathroom”, 1915

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  "Make-up woman", 1918

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  "Woman combing hair", 1920

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  "In the Onsen", 1920

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  "Fold kimono"

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  "Woman in Summer Kimono", 1920

Remarks

1. ^ Hashimoto Gahō (1835-1908) was one of the last artists of the Kanō school.
2. ↑ 化粧 の 女 , Keshō no onna
3. ↑ 温泉 宿 , Onsen-yado
4. ↑ 夏衣 の 女 , Natsugoromo no onna

literature

• Lawrence Smith: Modern Japanese Prints (1912-1989). Cross River Press, New York. 1994. ISBN 1-55859-871-5 .
• Helen Merritt: Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints. University of Hawaii Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8248-1200-X .

Web links

Commons : Hashiguchi Goyō  - collection of images, videos and audio files

1. ↑ 千葉 市 美術館. In: www.ccma-net.jp. Retrieved September 8, 2015 . 
2. ↑ 髪 梳 け る 女 . In: Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts. Retrieved September 8, 2015 (Japanese).