Terasaki Kōgyō

Terazaki Kogyo

Terasaki Kōgyō ( Japanese 寺 崎 広 業 ; born April 10, 1866 in Akita ; died February 21, 1919 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nihonga direction during the Meiji period .

life and work

Terasaki was born into a family in Akita who were in the service of the local princes, the Satake . At 16 or 18 he began to paint in the style of the Kanō school , but then went to Tōkyō in 1888, where he switched to the style of the Maruyama Shijō school under Hirafuku Suian (Hoan, 1844-90) . He also studied at times with the nanga painter Sugawara Hakuryū (1833–98). Then he worked for the magazine "Kaiga Sōshi" (絵 画 総 指), for which he made illustrations. He used all variants of Japanese and Chinese painting and finally found his own style after his house with all the templates and painting manuals had burned down in 1892.

On the occasion of an exhibition of the "Association of Young Painters in Japan", which had been organized by Okakura Kakuzō (Tenshin, 1862-1913), he was discovered by this. He then became a lecturer in 1898 at the recently founded University of the Arts (東京 美術 学校, Tōkyō bijutsu gakkō), today's Geidai . But he left them together with Hashimoto Gahō , Shimomura Kanzan and Yokoyama Taikan when Okakura left the dispute and founded the Nihon Bijutsuin . In 1901 he took up the professorship again. Terasaki won prizes at the exhibitions of Nihon Bijutsuin and on those of the "Japanese Society for Painting" (日本 絵 画 協会, Nihon kaiga kyōkai).

When Okakura retired from Nihon Bijutsuin in 1901, Terasaki returned to the College of the Arts, this time as a full-time teacher. In this position, which he held until 1918, he trained many students. During the Russo-Japanese War he worked as a correspondent and created a number of woodcuts as part of this activity. When in 1907 the state art exhibitions of the Ministry of Culture, the Mombushō Bijutsu Tenrankai (文部省 美術展 覧 会) began, he acted there as a juror. In 1917 he became an artistic advisory member or imperial painter (帝室 技 芸 員, Teishitsu gigei-in) of the imperial court office.

Terasaki was a prominent figure in the developing Nihonga. His landscapes are finely colored and in the Japanese style, whereby they suggest an examination of the realism introduced from Europe. Exemplary works are the hanging scrolls “Tani yondai” (溪 四 題, four gorges) with the individual names “Kumo no mine” (雲 の 峰, pass under clouds), “Natsu no tsuki” (夏 の 月, summer moon), “Aki -giri ”(秋 霧, autumn fog) and“ Ugo ”(雨後, after the rain) and the pair of adjustable screens“ Kōzan seishū ”(高山 清秋, clear autumn in high mountains). He had visited these places in 1897 on a trip along the Nakasendō, or its core, the Kiso trade route in the Nagano Mountains, together with Okakura Tenshin, Kawabata Gyokushō (1842–1913) and others, sketched them and then painted them on silk back in Tokyo.

photos

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  Screen with pine trees

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  Four gorges in four seasons

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  Clear autumn in high mountains

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  Clear autumn in high mountains

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  Reading woman

literature

• Tazawa, Yutaka: Terazaki Kōgyō . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Terazaki Kōgyō . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

Commons : Terasaki Kogyo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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