Itō Hakudai

Pine Alley, 1919

Rokujizō and the surrounding area, around 1919

Itō Hakudai ( Japanese 伊藤 柏 台 , real name Itō Shintarō (伊藤 新 太郎); born January 6, 1896 in Kyoto ; died March 7, 1932 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction of the Taishō and early Shōwa periods .

life and work

Itō Hakudai was born in Kyōto as the second son of a candy manufacturer with the brand name Hakke (柏 家). In 1914 he graduated from the "Municipal School for Arts and Crafts" in Kyoto (京都 市立 美術 工 芸 学校 | Kyōto shiritsu bijutsu kōgei gakkō). Then he continued his education at the "Municipal College of Painting" (京都 市立 絵 画 専 門 学校, Kyōto shiritsu kaiga semmon gakkō), where he received his diploma in 1919. During his training there he submitted the picture “松 並 木” (Matsunamiki, pine alley) to the 2nd exhibition of the “Kokuga sōsaku kyōkai” (国画 創作 協会), which was not accepted. At the 4th exhibition, however, he was able to exhibit the picture “冬 の 日” (Fuyu no hi, winter day). On the 5th exhibition he showed "黄 檗 付 近" (Ōbaku fukin, Am Ōbaku ), on the 6th "松原 庵" (Matsubara-an, Matsubara-Klause) and on the 7th "衣 笠 雷 景" (Kinugasa raikei, Thunderstorm landscape at Kinugasa).

In 1926 Itō was accepted as a member of the Kokuga sōsaku kyōkai, which, however, disbanded two years later. In the same year he founded Shinju-sha (新 樹 社) with painter friends, but it also disbanded after two exhibitions. In 1931 Itō showed at the newly founded Bjutsu.Club (美術 ク ラ ブ) the pictures “武 蔵 野 ニ テ” (Musashino nite, area of ​​Musashino), “上 桂 Am 近 ニ テ” (Kamikatsura fukin nite, on the upper reaches of the Katsura), “黄 檗 萬 松崗“(Ōbakuman matsuoka, pine forest at Ōbaku),“ 太 泰 藪 道 ”(Uzumasa yabumichi, bush path in Uzumasa),“ 今 熊 野 の 夏 ”(Imakumano no natsu, summer in Imakumano) and other images. But then he died at home in Shibano Funaoka (柴 野 ・ 船 岡) in 1932.

Itō was also interested in haiku and was on friendly terms with the poet En'ya Ubei (塩 谷 鵜 平; 1877–1940), who wrote lines like "こ の 寒 サ は 痛 タ し 柏 台 梅花 仏" (Kono samusa wa itashi Hakudai baika-Butsu, Hakudai, a plum blossom Buddha, who fell ill in the cold, wrote for him.

Itō's pictures, often pictures of wooded landscapes with exact locations, often resemble pen drawings. He had studied Rembrandt and Dürer through the magazine " Shirakaba " and other sources.

Remarks

1. ↑ Tributary of the Yodo to the Sea of ​​Japan.
2. ↑ Uzumasa is an area in Kyoto.

literature

• National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (ed.): Itō Hakudai In: Kyōto no Nihonga 1910–1930. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1986. ISBN 4-87642-117-X .

Web links (images)

At the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art :

• Itō: 卓 上 静物 - Still life, 1921 and other works

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Itō is the family name, Hakudai the first name.