Funakoshi Yasutake

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Funakoshi Yasutake (1962)

Funakoshi Yasutake ( Japanese 舟 越 保 武 ; * December 7, 1912 in Ichinohe , Ninohe-gun ; † February 5, 2002 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese sculptor.

life and work

Funakoshi was born in Ninohe County in Iwate Prefecture in the far north of Honshu and later attended Morioka Middle School . The later painter Matsumoto Shunsuke was one of his classmates there. In 1939 he became a member of the Shin Seisaku Kyōkai ( 新 制作 協会 , "Society for New Works of Art"), founded in 1936, and helped organize their department for sculpture. In 1941 he opened a joint exhibition in Morioka together with Shunsuke, with whom he was friends until his early death in 1948.

Tatsuko Statue (2003)

The sculpture Azalea , which Funakoshi showed at the 14th Shin Seisaku Kyōkai exhibition, was acquired by the Ministry of Education in 1950. In the same year, Funakoshi joined Catholicism, which had a great influence on his work. From 1958 to 1962 he created the 26 martyrs of Nagasaki and later the Hara-no-Jo ( 原 の 城 , Christian samurai ). For the 26 martyrs of Nagasaki he was awarded the Takamura Kōtarō Prize ( 高 村 光 太郎 賞 受 賞 ). He also received in 1964 from Pope Paul VI. the Order of Gregorius . For Hara-no-Jo he was awarded the Nakahara Teijirō Prize ( 中原 悌 二郎 賞 ) in 1972. The sculpture is now in the Vatican in Rome.

Funakoshi was from 1967 to 1980 professor at the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku and from 1980 to 1983 at the Tama School of Art . After his retirement in 1983 he was then honorary professor at the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku. In 1987 he suffered a stroke and as a result he had to continue his artistic work with his left hand. He died in Tokyo in 2002 at the age of 89.

Funakoshi’s other works include the sculpture Spring and the statue of Tatsuko . For spring he received the Hasegawa Hitoshi Memorial Prize. This sculpture has been on the Heimai Bridge in Kushiro since 1977 . The Tatsuko statue is a gold-colored bronze statue that sits on the shores of Lake Tazawa and was unveiled on April 12, 1968.

The sculptor Funakoshi Katsura is his son.

literature

Web links

Commons : Yasutake Funakoshi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Funakoshi Yasutake ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Iwate Museum of Art website (accessed April 22, 2013)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ima.or.jp
  2. ↑ a b Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press 2002, ISBN 0674017536 , p. 220 ( excerpt (Google) )
  3. ↑ Yasutake Funakoshi. と き の 忘 れ も の , 2005, accessed on April 23, 2013 (Japanese, with numerous illustrations).
  4. ↑ http://www.city.semboku.akita.jp/en/sightseeing/spot/04_tatsukozou.html (accessed April 22, 2013)
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Funakoshi is the family name, Yasutake the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Funakoshi, Yasutake
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 舟 越 保 武 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese sculptor and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Ichinohe , Ninohe-gun
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 2002
Place of death Tokyo