Kabutoya - Kabutoya

...The Tokyo Art Club has clubs in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Kanazawa, and in addition to bidding and auctions, it holds the "Five Capitals Exhibition" every year. Meanwhile, the pioneer of Western art dealers was Rōkan-dō, opened by Takamura Kōtarō in 1910, followed by Tanaka Kisaku's Tanakaya, Kawaji Ryūkō's Ryūisō, and Nojima Kōzō's Kabutoya in the early Taisho period. The Nichido Gallery, opened by Hasegawa Jin, a former pastor, in the early Showa period had branches in more than 10 cities, including Shanghai before the war and Paris after the war. ...

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…東京美術俱楽部は東京のほか大阪，京都，名古屋，金沢に俱楽部をもち，入札競売のほか毎年〈五都展〉を開く。一方，洋画商の草分けは1910年，高村光太郎が開いた琅玕堂（ろうかんどう）で，大正初期に田中喜作の田中屋，川路柳虹の流逸荘，野島康三の兜屋がつづく。昭和初期に牧師出身の長谷川仁がはじめた日動画廊は，戦前は上海，戦後はパリをふくむ10都市以上に支店をもった。…

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