Kinreisha - Kinreisha

A research group for Japanese painting. It was formed in 1916 (Taisho 5) by cutting-edge artists from the Bunten Japanese Painting Division, such as Yuki Somei, Kaburagi Kiyokata, Hirafuku Hyakusui, Kikkawa Reika, and Matsuoka Eikyu, along with Taguchi Kikutei, who ran the magazine Chuo Bijutsu. The group held its first exhibition in February of the following year at Mitsukoshi Main Store in Tokyo, and aimed for free research and individual expression. It held monthly study meetings, called for reflection on the Bunten authorities' lack of understanding of the new trends in painting, and published progressive opinions and editorials in Chuo Bijutsu. It disbanded in June of 1922 after the seventh exhibition, but its members went on to become leading artists in the Teiten exhibition (which was renamed Teiten in 1919).

[Eriko Saeki]

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日本画の研究団体。1916年（大正5）文展日本画部の新鋭作家結城素明(ゆうきそめい)、鏑木清方(かぶらききよかた)、平福百穂(ひらふくひゃくすい)、吉川霊華(きっかわれいか)、松岡映丘(えいきゅう)らと雑誌『中央美術』を主宰する田口掬汀(きくてい)が結成。翌17年2月東京・三越本店において第1回展を開催、自由な研究と個性の表現を目ざし、毎月研究会を開き、新傾向の画風に無理解な文展当局に反省を求め、『中央美術』に進歩的な感想や論説を発表した。22年、第7回展開催後の6月に解散したが、会員はその後帝展（1919年、文展は帝展と改称）を代表する作家となって活躍した。

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