Tada Keiichi

Tada Keiichi ( Japanese 多 田 敬 一 , first name originally read Yoshikazu , born June 25, 1900 in Nakagyō-ku of Kyōto , died March 1, 1984 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction during the Taishō and Shōwa periods .

life and work

Tada Keiichi was the eldest son of the Nō teacher of the Kanze School (観 世 流 能 楽, Kanze-ryū Nōgaku), Tada Saichirō (多 田 佐 一郎), who had also studied under the painter Kōno Bairei . Keiichi graduated from the "School of Arts and Crafts Kyōto" ( 京都 市立 美術 工 芸 学校 , Kyōto shiritsu bijutsu kōgei gakkō ) and continued to study at the "Technical School for Painting Kyōto" ( 京都 市立 絵 画 専 門 学校 , Kyōto shiritsu kōto gakkō ).

During his training, Tada submitted a picture entitled "Landscape" (風景, Fūkei) to the 3rd exhibition of the artists' association "Kokuga sōsaku kyōkai" ( 国画 創作 協会 ), which was not accepted. At the 5th exhibition he was then able to show the picture “Village by the Sea” (海 ぞ い の 村, Umi-zoi no mura). On the 6th exhibition he showed "Twilight" (黄昏, Kōkon) and "Hills" (丘, Oka), on the 7th "Camellias" (椿, Tsubaki). All pictures show the influence of his teacher Irie Hakō (入 江 波光; 1887–1848), who placed value on precise graphic representation. In 1927 Tada became a provisional member of the Kokuga sōsaku kyōkai, which, however, disbanded the following year. The subsequent artist community Shinjukai (新 樹 会) also disbanded after two exhibitions.

Tada trained on the advice of Irie under Kikuchi Keigetsu and now exhibited at the state “ Teiten ” and the successor organization “ Shin Bunten ”, but after 1945 no longer at the exhibition series now called “ Nitten ”. Encouraged by Irie, he turned to copying the wall paintings in historically important buildings. These included the wall paintings in the Hōryū-ji , the decorations of the Shugakuin mansion , the Katsura mansion , in the Phoenix Hall (鳳凰 堂, Hōōdō) of the Byōdō-in , the Sambō-in of the Daigo-ji and other places. In addition, Tada taught at the School of Arts and Crafts from 1940 to 1949 and finally as a drawing teacher at Shimogamo Middle School.

Web links (images)

Owned by the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art :

• "Green forest" (新 樹, Shinju) 1931
• "Early spring in the north of Kyoto" (洛 北 早春, Rakuhoku sōshun) around 1935
• “Autumn along the mountains” (山 に 沿 ふ 秋, Yami ni sou aki) 1936

Remarks

1. ↑ Raku is an old name for Kyoto. Raku-hoku means: "in the north of Kyoto".

literature

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

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