Miyake Kōhaku

This article is about the painter. For the inventor of guidance systems for the blind, see Seiichi Miyake .

Miyake: After the Bath, 1915

Miyake Kōhaku ( Japanese 三 宅 凰 白 , real name: Miyake Seiichi ( 三 宅 清 一 ); born May 2, 1893 in Kyōto ; died February 26, 1957 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction of Taishō and Shōwa Time .

life and work

Miyake Kōhaku was born as the second son of the painter Miyake Gogyō ( 三 宅 呉 曉 ; 1864-1919) in Kyoto. He graduated in 1912 from the Department of Painting of the “Municipal School of Arts and Crafts Kyōto” ( 京都 市立 美術 工 芸 学校 Kyōto shiritsu bijutsu gakkō ) and then in 1915 at the “Municipal School of Painting” ( 京都 市立 絵 画 専 門 学校 Kyōto shiritsu kaiga senmon gakkō ). After that he continued his studies, but in December of that year he was called up for military training. The experiences there he put in the pictures Enshu shoken ( 演習 所見 , "view of the military training area") and Sekkō kōgun ( 斥候 行軍 , "patrol march").

In 1918, Miyake was able to show a picture for the first time at the Colorful Exhibition. At the 6th Teiten exhibition in 1925, his picture Oharame ( お は ら め , "Women of Ohara") could be seen. His picture Kadan ( 花旦 , "Flower Morning ") was awarded in 1930 on the 11th Teiten. In between, Miyake had trained under Yamamoto Shunkyo in 1926 and exhibited as part of his Sanae group ( 早苗 会 sanae-kai ). From 1937 Miyake was able to exhibit at the exhibition, now called Shin-Bunten , without a jury. After the war he continued to exhibit at the Nitten .

From 1936 to 1949 Miyake was a professor at the Municipal Academy of Painting in Kyoto, then from 1951 professor at the Women's Short University ( 光華 女子 短期 大学 Kōka joshi tanki daigaku ). When the Sanae group disbanded in 1943, he was involved in founding the Kōjin-kai ( 耕 人 会 ), in which he was a manager. Miyake was good at genre pictures, painted parties and dances, Nō pictures. His picture Shibon was shown at the Japanese Painting Exhibition in Berlin in 1931 . The Chinese actor Mei Lan-fang is portrayed in the role of a young nun who is escaping from the monastery.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Bunten ( 文 展 ) is the abbreviation for the annual state art exhibition Mombushō bijutsu tenrankai ( 文部省 美術展 覧 会 ) from 1907 to 1918, Teiten ( 帝 展 ) is the abbreviation for the subsequent facility Teikoku bijutsu-in tenrankai ( 帝国美術展 覧 会 ) between 1919 and 1935. The successor from 1936 to 1944 was called colorful again , with a shin ( 新 , “new”) in front to distinguish it. Since 1946, the exhibition is no longer state-owned, short Nitten ( 日 展 ) for Nihon bijutsu-in tenrankai ( 日本 美術展 覧 会 ).
2. ↑ The women of Ohara, called Ohara-me ( 大 原 女 ), traditionally dressed, carried firewood on their heads from Ohara to Kyoto until the 1920s.

literature

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

Web links

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