Koizumi Kishio

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Koizumi Kishio ( Japanese 小泉 癸巳 男 ; * June 1893 in Shizuoka Prefecture ; † December 1945 ) was a Japanese woodblock print artist of the Yōga direction.

life and work

Koizumi was the son of a samurai who also worked as a calligrapher . He took his first lessons from Horikoshi Kankichi, who prepared the printing of a calligraphy manual for his father. Then he went to Tokyo and studied within the society for watercolor painting ( 日本 水彩画 会 研究所 , Nihon suisai-ga kenkyūjo ). Maruyama Banka (1867–1942), Ishii Hakutei and Oda Kazuma (1882–1956) were among his teachers. He made his living during this time with small black and white illustrations for newspapers and magazines. There he met Tobari Kogan , who worked for the same periodicals. At Tobari's urging, he participated in the founding of the "Society for Creative Woodcut" ( 創作 版画 協会 , Sōsaku hanga kyōkai ) in 1918 . Yamamoto Kanae encouraged him to write a textbook for making woodblock prints, which was then published under the title Mokuhan no horikata / surikata ( 木版 の 掘 り か た ・ 摺 り か た ).

Koizumi's main work was published as "100 Pictures of Tokyo of the Shōwa Period" ( 昭和 東京 百 図 絵 , Shōwa Tōkyō hyaku zue ), in which he summarized the color woodcuts of Tokyo that were created from 1928 onwards.

Selection from the "100 Pictures of Tokyo"

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  In Ueno Park

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  Lumber yard in Fukagawa district

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  Hijiri Bridge

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  Philosopher Pavilion

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  Imperial Hotel

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  Kiyosumi Park

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  Akamon University of Tokyo

Remarks

1. ↑ The Tokyo Financial District.
2. ↑ This pavilion is in Tetsugaku Park in the Nakano District, Tokyo. It goes back to the philosopher Inoue Enryō .

literature

• Smith, Lawrence: Modern Japanese Prints. 1912-1989. Cross River Press, 1994. ISBN 1-55859-871-5 .
• Merrit, Helen: Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints. The Early Years. University of Hawaii Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8248-1200-X .

Web links

Commons : Koizumi Kishio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Selection of woodcuts

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