Tsuda Seifu

Tsuda Seifū ( Japanese 津 田 青楓 ; * 1880 in Kyōto as Nishikawa Kamejirō ( 西川 亀 治郎 ); † 1978 ) was a Japanese painter.

Tsuda stayed in Paris almost at the same time (1907–1911) as his artist colleague Ishii Hakutei . With him and the writer and painter Arishima Ikuma he founded the Nikakai exhibition for oil painting in 1914 . His most famous work is the oil painting The Sacrifice ( 犠 牲 者 , giseisha ; 1933), which depicts the death of the writer Kobayashi Takiji , who was tortured to death by the military police. Furthermore, Tsuda created a series of woodcuts that Yamada Naozo published under the title Ko bijutsu .

It is not clear whether Tsuda Seifū is identical to the artist Matsuda Seifu , who published a series of portraits of Kabuki actors in the art magazine Shin Nigao in 1915 and who created the illustrations for the book Kabuki no katsura in 1959 .

source

• The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints - Matsuda Seifu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kotobank: 津 田青楓 in the digital edition of Nihonjinmei Daijiten, Kōdansha 2009

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