Rokkaku Shisui

Rokkaku Shisui 1948

Rokkaku Shisui ( Japanese 六角 紫 水 , actually Fujioka Chūtarō ( 藤 岡 仲太郎 ) later at the same reading ( 藤 岡 注 多 良 ); born April 24, 1868 in Ōgaki on the island of Nōmishima ( 能 美 島 ) in Hiroshima prefecture ; d . April 1950 ) was a Japanese master of lacquer work .

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Rokkaku graduated from the Tokyo State Art School in 1893 ( 東京 美術 学校 , Tōkyō bijtsu gakkō ), the forerunner of today's University of the Arts Tōkyō . He was one of the first to graduate from the lacquer work with gold powder layer ( 蒔 絵 , Maki-e ) class and subsequently became an assistant professor.

At the suggestion of Okakura Tenshin , Rokkaku made a contribution to the study of classical Japanese art. He also participated in Okakura's founding of Nihon Bijutsuin . In 1904 he was one of the artists who joined Okakura's trip to America. In the USA, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City were visited. 1908 followed a trip to Europe, which led to London, Paris, Berlin and Russia. Rokkaku also took part in the excavations in Nangnang ( 樂 浪 ; Korea ). He later used the Kyōmon technique himself, which was found during the Nangnang excavations and which had been used for lacquer work during the Han dynasty . Examples of this were also found among the treasures of the Shōsō-in imperial treasury from the 8th century.

Rokakku also worked on creating colored lacquer work, whereby he succeeded in producing white lacquer. He became a professor at the Tokyo Art School and a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (now the Japanese Academy of Arts ). - Among his written works, the "History of Far Eastern lacquer work" ( 東洋 漆工 史 , Tōyō shikkō shi ) is particularly worth mentioning. - The heraldic animal of the Kirin beer brewery from 1889 is said to have been designed by Rokkaku.

Remarks

1. ↑ Today the city of Etajima .

literature

• Tazawa, Yutaka: Rokkaku Shisui . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .