Tanikado Hisaharu

Tanikado Hisaharu ( Japanese 谷 角 日 娑 春 , born August 22, 1893 in Moroyose, Mikata County ( Hyōgo Prefecture ), died March 21, 1971 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction during the Taishō and Shōwa periods .

life and work

Tanikado Hisaharu was born as the second son of the shipowner Tanikado Eitarō (谷 角 娑 太郎). His real first name was - at the same reading - 久 治. Other Go are “Sessai” (雪 斎) and the Hisaharu variants 悲 佐 春 and 日 沙 春. In 1913 Tanikado began under Tatewaki Taisan (立 脇 泰山), who was just at the Mangan-ji (満 願 寺) temple in Hamasakachō to learn painting. In September of that year he went to Kyoto and began studying under Kikuchi Keigetsu in 1914 .

In 1918, at the 12th “ Bunte ”, a picture of him with the title “A wise child” (知 恵 頂 け る 児) was accepted for the first time. In 1920 he went to Tōkyō, stayed in the joy area of Yoshiwara and began to draw there. In the same year he showed the picture “A woman combing herself” (髪 櫛 る 女) on the 2nd “ Teiten ” and then stayed with the theme of courtesans with pictures such as “Lightly bright window and woman” (淡 日 さ す 窓 と 女, Awahisasu mado to onna) or “picture of a courtesan” (遊 女 の 絵, Yūjo no e), pictures that were accepted for exhibitions.

After the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923 , he first returned to Kyoto, then to his homeland, to Moroyose. The following year he went back to Kyoto, where he continued his education in the school of Kikuchi. In the following years he exhibited at the Teiten, but also in the exhibitions of the Kikuchi School. His style came closer and closer to that of his master. In 1933, on the 14th page, his picture “Beautiful Woman from Rakuhoku” (洛 北 の 佳人, Rakuhoku no gajin) was awarded a prize.

Even after the parts were replaced by the exhibition series now known as “ New Colorful ”, Tanikado continued to show pictures. After the end of the Pacific War, he painted in a style that deformed the figures in an angular manner, broke away from the exhibition series now called “ Nitten ”, and was less seen in public. From the 1960s he turned to Buddhist topics.

Remarks

1. ↑ Rakuhoku (洛 北) indicates a district in the north of Kyoto. The name is based on the term "Outside Kyōto" (洛 外, Rakugai).

literature

• National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (ed.): Tanikado Hisaharu . 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 Tanikado is the family name, Hisaharu the first name.