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26-500: Taikan may refer to: Yokoyama Taikan (1868 – 1958), a Japanese painter Kokka Taikan , a compilation of Japanese waka poetry Taikan Range , a mountain chain in the Russian Far East Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Taikan . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

52-472: A cutting-edge technique was severely criticized by other traditional painters. His style, which was called "Mourou-tai(Blurred style)" (which nowadays exactly depicts his painting's character), meant the lack of energy and vitality sarcastically. He later turned almost exclusively to monochrome ink paintings , and came to be known for his mastery of the various tones and shades of black. A number of his works have been classified as Important Cultural Property by

78-664: A long term solo show to the United States at the Pasadena Museum of California Art , with his lacquer paintings the same year. Finishing a 70 cm tall lacquer painting titled "Akatsuki Fuji" in 1984 for the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum , he joined the "500 Years of Artists inspired by Mount Fuji" exhibition, along with those popular artists including Sesshu Toyo , Ze-an, Tawaraya Sotatsu , Ogata Korin , Maruyama Okyo along with Yokoyama Taikan . The lacquer painting toured to

104-798: A painter, Watanabe Fumisaburō. In 1888, he was adopted into his mother's family, taking the surname "Yokoyama" and changed his personal name to Hidemaro. In 1889, Yokoyama enrolled in the first graduating class of the Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō (the predecessor to the Tokyo University of the Arts ), which had just been opened by Okakura Kakuzō (aka Okakura Tenshin). In school, he studied under the Kanō school artist Hashimoto Gahō . Several of his classmates also later became famous artists: Hishida Shunsō, Shimomura Kanzan, and Saigō Kogetsu. After graduation, Yokoyama spent

130-441: A plate with dry lacquer coat would be etched with a flexible bamboo spatula, thus presenting a semi-three dimensional carving. When dried, the sculptured surface was colored with pigmented lacquer just like an oil painting. While the plate, or the relief was already sculpted, coloring enhanced to mimick the natural features. That same year in 1950, Hakuo announced the new Lacquer Wood Block Print 漆絵版画 ( Urushi-e hanga ) by using

156-508: A plate with dry lacquer finish and lacquer as the printing pigment/ink. It was during that time a block of dry lacquer was curved into a "Lacquer Ink Stone", or Urushi suzuri ( 漆硯 ) . From 1954 and on, Hakuo's shipment of artworks overseas started to climb up. There were demands in the United States , the United Kingdom , France , Germany , Argentina , Netherlands , and Belgium to start with. A Metal Flower Vase with Inlaid Dry Lacquer

182-641: A year teaching at "Kyōto Shiritsu Bijutsu Kōgei Gakkō" (the predecessor to the Kyoto City University of Arts ) in Kyoto , studying Buddhist painting. Around that time, he started to use the art-name "Taikan". He returned to Tokyo in 1896 as assistant professor at the Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō. He resigned that position only a year later, when his mentor, Okakura Kakuzō (aka Okakura Tenshin), was forced to resign for political reasons, and joined Okakura in establishing

208-674: Is now open to the public as the Yokoyama Taikan Memorial Museum . His brain is preserved in formaldehyde at the University of Tokyo Medical School. On November 2, 2011, Google celebrated his 143rd birthday with a Google Doodle . Several of Yokoyama's works have been selected by the Japanese government to appear on commemorative postage stamps  : Hakuo Iriyama Iriyama Hakuo (入山白翁 ( Iriyama Hakuō ) , or birth name 平太郎 ( Heitarō ) ; 1904 – 11 November 1991)

234-495: The Agency for Cultural Affairs . His trip to Calcutta in 1902 was immensely important for the evolution of global Modernism , as it resulted in a seminal exchange both of technique and motif with the important early Indian Modernist Abanindranath Tagore . In the pre-World War II era, Taikan was sent to Italy by the Japanese government as an official representative of the Japanese artistic community. Because his teacher Okakura Tenshin

260-722: The Surrender of Japan . In 1935, he was appointed to the Imperial Arts Academy (the forerunner of the Japan Art Academy ), and in 1937, he was one of the first people to be awarded the Order of Culture when it was established in 1937. He was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun , first class. On 26 February 1958, Yokoyama Taikan died in Tokyo at the age of eighty-nine; his former house

286-595: The 3rd Shin Bunten Exhibition was a government sponsored show to encourage arts and crafts sectors to contribute to gain foreign currencies, and exporters were keen to commission talented person like Hakuo who took increased orders for overseas trade since around 1936. The former office of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry sanctioned the Japan Foreign Trade Council, a foreign trade campaign system where Hakuo gained membership in 1940. As that year

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312-473: The Arts ) in 1928. While still studying at the college, Hakuo won his first prize in 1931 at the national Arts and Crafts Exhibition ( Bijutsu Kougei-ten ). There was another prestigious art show for an aspiring artist called the Art Associations Exhibition ( Bijutsu Kyokai-ten ), which Hakuo won the next year. When graduated from his college in 1933, his graduation work was on honorable display for

338-638: The Japan Fine Arts Academy ( Nihon Bijutsuin ). After the death of his wife, Yokoyama traveled extensively overseas, visiting Calcutta , New York City , Boston , London, Berlin and Paris. In 1914, after his ouster from the Bunten Fine Arts Exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education , Yokoyama concentrated on reviving the Japan Fine Arts Academy, which had closed down upon Okakura Kakuzō's death in 1913. The annual exhibitions of

364-522: The Japan Fine Arts Academy, which had the abbreviated name Inten , became one of the most important, non-governmental outlets for young talents. One of the chief sponsors of Taikan at this time was the silk merchant and art patron Hara Tomitarō . His influence in the university was strong even in other creative fields. He brought up for example Hakuo Iriyama , educated into a lacquer artist, that developed original painting and printing techniques based on dry lacquer techniques and pigmented lacquer. Taikan

390-662: The Sea" at the occasion of the Okinawa Expo '75 . It was a 100 cm broad sized lacquer painting depicting "Whirling tides". To commemorate those thirty years up to 1977, a retrospective exhibition was held at Tokyo Central Museum in Ginza. Hakuo's interest in glass painting led him to be the guest artist at the Shoto Museum of Art in Shibuya in 1982. His lacquer paintings were offered to be on

416-530: The gallery of Hachioji Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. in 1988 and in 1990 to Aikawa Gallery at Atsugi , Kanagawa Prefecture, while a permanent collection at the Senshindo Gallery in Machida has been on display since 1986 at Machida , Tokyo. Incorporating the disciplines of Japanese traditional paintings and utilizing them for the traditional lacquer crafts, a whole new world of lacquer paintings and lacquer prints

442-526: The government of Japan for the promotion of arts and crafts to support export, and demand from overseas expanded. Three more Grand Prix was awarded at the second, the fourth, and the six Nitten Exhibitions between 1946 and 1950, when Hakuo decided to leave the art organizations and start working independently. For the first time, Hakuo concentrated on his own ideas and developed the lacquer etching technique which he would name "Shitsuga" Lacquer painting ( 漆画 ) in 1950. The thick base layer of lacquer spread over

468-531: The headquarters' building of Japan Business Federation , the Industry Club of Japan over the following years, totaling to over 30 exhibits held at those venues including the international social functions at the Tokyo American Club which hold membership of over 3,500. Isetan held a larger show in the period of 28 May to 3 June 1965. At the age of 71, Hakuo won the "Contemporary Art Contest - Drawings of

494-500: The highest excellency before joining the permanent collection of the Art Museum at Tokyo University of the Arts . Hakuo continued to make traditional crafts with his own design to apply for art shows. In 1935　and 1936, he won two major shows, and the success at the Art Associations Exhibition had Hakuo's tea caddy set to be joined to the collection of Empress Teimei later, along with incense burners and jewelry chests. The other show, or

520-405: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taikan&oldid=1051370010 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Yokoyama Taikan Sakai Hidemaro (known as Yokoyama Taikan)

546-529: Was a lacquer artist from Shirone, Niigata in Japan. He began training as an apprentice in his family at the age of 15, and developed his own technique of painting, which he referred to as shitsuga . It was in 1926 when Hakuo started to study dry lacquer techniques in Tokyo, and in two years, he was commenced to the Craft Department to major Lacquer Craft at Ueno Bijyutsu Gakko (present day Tokyo University of

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572-512: Was a nationalist (known as a loyal philosopher in the Meiji era as well), Taikan was very much influenced by his thoughts. Consequently, he repeatedly used Mount Fuji as a motif of his paintings, and even presented them to the Imperial family. During World War II, he donated his earnings from the sales of his paintings to the national military, and this resulted in his arrest and interrogation by SCAP after

598-689: Was born in Mito city , Ibaraki Prefecture , as the eldest son of Sakai Sutehiko, a samurai serving the Mito clan. His earliest name was Hidezō, and later Hidematsu. With his family, he moved to Tokyo in 1878. He studied at the Tōkyō Furitsu Daiichi Chūgakkō (today's Hibiya High School ), and was interested in the English language and in Western-style oil painting . This led him to study pencil drawing with

624-766: Was delivered to the Soviet Art Museum, as record tells us as Kanshitsu zōgan makie no kabin ( 乾漆象嵌蒔絵花瓶 ) . It was in 1956 when Hakuo started a solo exhibition of "Lacquer paintings" at the Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Gallery between 13 and 18 November. His show became popular as Mitsukoshi Gallery had his second exhibit of "Lacquer paintings" in 1957 again, then the third from 28 October to 2 November 1958. Solo art shows circulated to art galleries at Kintetsu , Isetan , Odakyu , Daiwa and Tokyu department stores. Shows were held annually at Shiseido Gallery in Ginza ,

650-505: Was extremely influential in the evolution of the Nihonga technique, having departed from the traditional method of line drawing . Together with Hishida Shunsō , he developed a new style, eliminating the lines and concentrating on soft, blurred polychromes. While Yokoyama's works tended to remain faithful in general to the traditional Rinpa school style, he experimented with various techniques borrowed from Western painting methods. However, such

676-468: Was the 2,600th year in commemoration of the Imperial reign, works were shipped feverishly to customers overseas, and as the wartime restriction on industrial materials and metals heightened, in 1944, Hakuo sたred a research group for lacquer enamel inlay over metal. The Second World War was over in 1945 when Hakuo won the Grand Prix at the first post-war national art exhibition Nitten . It was sanctioned by

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