Hyakutake Kaneyuki

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Hyakutake
Bulgarian girl, 1879

Hyakutake Kaneyuki ( Japanese 百 武 兼 行 , first name sometimes read Kenkō ; born July 14, 1842 in Saga ; died December 21, 1884 ) was a Japanese diplomat and early painter in the Western Yōga style of the Meiji period .

life and work

Hyakutake Kaneyuki was born as the second son of the higher samurai Hyakutake Kanetada ( 百 武 兼 貞 ) below Saga Castle . His father held various functions within the administration of the Saga-han . Among other things, he invited Gottfried Wagener to Arita to improve the porcelain production.

At the age of 8 years was Kaneyuki of 10 princes ( daimyo ) of the Saga han , Nabeshima Naomasa ( 鍋島直正 ; 1815-1871) 11 as a playmate for his four year old son and later princes, Naohiro ( 鍋島直大 , 1846 to 1921 ) select. The two then traveled with him in December 1871 on the Iwakura mission via the USA to England, where he studied economics. In 1874 he returned shortly to Saga because of the local uprising against the new Meiji government, but took up his studies in Oxford again in the same year. - There he met the painter Thomas Miles Richardson Jr. (1813–1890), from whom he took lessons. He was soon able to gain recognition in the Royal Academy with the painting "Western Lady in Japanese Clothes" ( 日本 服 を 着 た 西洋 婦人 , Nihonfuku o kita Seiyō fujin ).

In 1878 Hyakutake went from London to Paris, where he stayed for a year and now devoted himself intensively to studying painting. His teacher there was Léon Bonnat . In 1880 he went to Italy as a diplomat, where he stayed for a few years. On the fringes of his official activity, he met the history painter Cesare Maccari from Siena , who sharpened his eye for antiquity.

Back in Japan in 1882, Hyakutake held a position in government, but fell ill and died two years later. That was a great loss for the development of modern painting in Japan.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The saga insurrection, led by Etō Shimpei , was soon put down.
  2. ↑ This painting "Girl with Mandolin", 1879, was shown at the exhibition Japanese Painting in Western Style 1985 in the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Tokyo National Museum u. a. (Ed.): Meiji no yōga - Meiji no toō gaka . Nihon no bijutsu. Issue 350, 1995.

literature

  • Japan Foundation (Ed.): Hyakutake Kenkō . In: Japanese painting in the western style, 19th and 20th centuries. Exhibition catalog, Cologne, 1985.
  • Laurance P. Roberts: Hyakutake Kenkō . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Hyakutake is the family name, Kaneyuki the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hyakutake, Kaneyuki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 百 武 兼 行 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH saga
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1884