Yamaguchi Hoshun

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Yamaguchi Hōshun ( Japanese 山口 蓬 春 , real name Yamaguchi Saburō ( 山口 三郎 ); born October 13, 1893 in Hokkaidō , died May 31, 1971 ) was a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style.

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Yamaguchi was born in Hokkaidō, then graduated from Takanawa Middle School in Tōkyō. He first studied at Tokyo bijutsu gakkō ( 東京 美術 学校 ), the forerunner of the Geidai , in the department of western painting. Then he moved to the department of painting in the "Japanese style" ( Nihonga ) and became a student of Matsuoka Eikyū ( 松岡 映 丘 ; 1881-1938). He studied the early Yamato-e painting , but also Nihonga in general, without completely excluding Western painting.

In 1926 Yamaguchi was honored for his work "The Three Shrines of Nachi at Oyama" ( 三 熊 野 の 那 智 の 御 山 ), once through an award from the state exhibition Teiten, and the other from the Japanese Academy of Arts . For the Meiji Memorial Gallery , which opened in 1926 , he created the painting “Dispatch of the Iwakura Mission ”. - In Germany he was shown at the Japanese Painting Exhibition in Berlin in 1931 . From 1942, a war painting “香港 島 最後 の 総 攻 撃 図” (Honkon-tō saigo no sōkōgeki zu; final major attack on Hong Kong ; 154 × 216 cm) is kept in the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo .

In 1950 Yamaguchi became a member of the Academy of Arts, was honored as a person with special cultural merits in 1965 and received the Order of Culture at the same time .

In 1990 the Yamaguchi family transferred the home of Yamaguchi Hōshun, including the property and holdings, as a memorial gallery to the " JR Tōkai Foundation for Lifelong Learning" ( JR 東海 生涯 学習 財 団 , JR Tōkai shōgai gakushū zaidan ). It was opened to the public on October 15, 1991.

Remarks

  1. ↑ There are three old shrines in a mountainous area at the impressive Nachi Waterfall in Wakayama Prefecture .
  2. ↑ Teiten ( 帝 展 ) stands for Teikoku bijutsu tenrankai ( 帝国 芸 術 展 覧 会 ). That was the state-organized Japanese art exhibition in the 1930s and 1940s.

literature

  • S. Noma (Ed.): Yamaguchi Hōshun . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1727.
  • Tazawa, Yutaka: Yamaguchi Hōshun . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
  • Laurance P. Roberts: Yamaguchi Hōshun . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Yamaguchi, Hōshun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 山口 蓬 春 (Japanese, stage name); Yamaguchi Saburō (real name); 山口 三郎 (Japanese, real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Hokkaidō
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1971