Kainoshō Tadaoto

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Kainoshō Tadaoto ( Japanese 甲 斐 庄 楠 音 , family name with the same reading actually 甲 斐 荘; born December 23, 1894 in Kyōto ; died June 16, 1978 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction during the Taishō and Shōwa periods .

life and work

The Kainoshō lead their family back to Kusunoki Masashige , as indicated here in the first name with the sign Kusu (楠) . Tadaoto was frail as a child and left middle school without a degree. He then attended the Department of Design at the "Municipal School for Arts and Crafts" (京都 市立 美術 工 芸 学校, Kyōto shiritsu bijutsu kōgei gakkō), from which he graduated in 1912. He then attended the "Municipal School for Painting" (京都 市立 絵 画 専 門 学校, Kyōto shiritsu kaiga semmon gakkō), from which he graduated in 1915. Supervised by Murakami KagakuAs a thesis, he created the picture “Steckkamm” (横 櫛, Yokogushi), a picture that shows a woman in a costume and a comb in her hair. In 1918 he was able to show this work at the first exhibition of the "Kokuga sōsaku kyōkai" (国画 創作 協会) with success.

He trained under Kawakita Kahō (1875-1940) and submitted work for the annual exhibition of the Ministry of Culture "Bunten", but was not accepted there. Even at the 2nd exhibition of the Kokuga sōsaku kyōkai he did not get a chance. But then he was able to show the picture “Woman in a blue dress” (青衣 の 女, Aogoromo no onna) submitted there at the 4th “Teiten” exhibition in 1922. In 1924 his painting “Tanzen” (舞 う, Mau) and “Halbakt” (半裸 の 女, Hanra no onna) was accepted. Even after that he was successful with “Woman from the South” (南 の 女, Minami no onna), (歌妓, Kagi) and “Nude” (裸 婦, Rafu) at the 5th exhibition of Kokuga sōsaku kyōkai and with “Snow Woman “(雪女, Yuki onna (unfinished),“ Daughter ”娘子, Musume-go),“ Mother ”(母, Haha) and“ Escape ”(逃亡, Tōbō) at the 6th exhibition and“ Lady of the Camellias ”(椿 姫, Tsubaki -hime) at the 7th exhibition. In 1925 Kainoshō was made a friend of the exhibitor group, and two years later he was accepted as a member.

When the association dissolved in 1928, Kainoshō founded the Shinjūsha (新 樹 社) with like-minded people, which, however, dissolved again after two exhibitions. After that, he largely stopped painting and began working for the film industry. As an employee of the director Mizoguchi Kenji , he designed contemporary costumes and objects. For his work on Mizoguchi's film Ugetsu - tales under the rain moon Kainosho was at the Oscars 1956 in the category Costume Design Best nominated.

Kainoshō strove to paint “true” pictures of women, which Tsuchida Bakusen and other painters in Kyoto found partly offensive.

literature

  • National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (ed.): Kainosho Tadaoto. In: Kyōto no Nihonga 1910–1930. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1986. ISBN 4-87642-117-X .
  • Laurance P. Roberts: Kainosho Tadaoto . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

Pictures in the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto :

Remarks

  1. ↑ There is a second version of this picture from 1918.
  2. ↑ a b "Bunten" (文 展) is the abbreviation for Mombushō bijutsu tenrankai ( 文部省 美術展 覧 会 ), so for the annual state art exhibition of the Ministry of Culture between 1907 and 1918. From 1919 it was abbreviated to “Teiten” ( 帝 展 ) for ( 帝国 美術展 覧 会 , Teikoku bijutsu-in tenrankai ).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Kainoshō is the family name, Tadaoto the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kainoshō, Tadaoto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 甲 斐 庄 楠 音 (Japanese); 甲 斐 荘 楠 音 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto , Japan
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1978