Ueda Sōkyū

Ueda Sōkyū ( Japanese 上 田 桑 鳩 , actually Ueda Jun (上 田 順); born May 11, 1899 in Miki ( Hyōgo Prefecture ); died September 4, 1968 ) was a Japanese calligrapher.

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Ueda Shōkyū, born Fujita, took on his wife's surname when they married in 1919. He was interested in calligraphy and had as a teacher Ihara Ungai (井 原 雲 涯) and Hidai Tenrai (比 田 井 天 来; 1872-1939). From 1933 Ueda published the magazine “Shodō geijutsu” (書 道 芸 術) and in 1940 founded the “Keisei-kai” (奎星 会).

After the Pacific War , he devoted all his energy to the “Zen'eisho” (前衛 書) movement, an avant-garde calligraphy that focuses on the beauty of shapes, lines, ink colors, edges, etc., as pure visuals There is art on the surface. He was a member of the jury for the “Nitten” and the Mainichi Art Prize .

Ueda left u. a. the work “Rinsho daikan” (臨 書 大 鑑), “Encyclopedia of Calligraphy” and “Beauty of Calligraphy” (書 の 美, Sho no bi). One of his students was Morita Shiryu .

Remarks

1. ↑ Nitten, short for ( 日本 美術展 覧 会 ), the annual Nihon bijutsu-in tenrankai art exhibition series , was the successor to the formerly state-run art exhibition series established in 1907 from 1946 onwards.

Web links

• Short biography of Ueda Sōkyū in the Kotobank

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