Koide Narashige - Koide Narashige

Western-style painter. Born in Osaka City on October 13, 1887. Entered the Japanese Painting Department of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1907 (Meiji 40), and later studied at the Haramachi Western Painting Institute of the Hakuba-kai (White Horse Society), before switching to the Western Painting Department and graduating in 1914 (Taisho 3). Returning to Osaka, he exhibited at the Inten Western Painting Department, and in 1916 won the Chogyu Prize for his first Nikaten exhibition for "N's Family," and the following year won the Nika Prize for "Portrait of a Girl with a Plum Blossom," becoming a Nikakai associate. Traveled to Europe from 1926 to 1927, traveling to Germany and southern France, and became a Nikakai member the year after returning to Japan. Together with other Kansai-based Nikakai members such as Nabei Katsuyuki, he established the Shinanobashi Western Painting Institute in Osaka to train the next generation, and at the beginning of the Showa era took a leading role in the newly launched Kansai Western Painting Exhibition. From then on, he produced more and more nudes, and by utilizing the volume of his works, such as "Reclining Nude" and "Nude on a Chinese Bed," and the viscosity and brilliance of oil paint, he established a unique style of painting in modern Japanese nude painting. He also excelled in glass painting, and demonstrated his versatility by illustrating Junichiro Tanizaki's newspaper novel "The Tadekufumushi" and other works, and publishing essay collections such as "Naraju Miscellany," "Blessed Landscapes," and "Important Atmospheres." He died on February 13, 1931, at the age of 44.

[Tadao Ogura]

"Japanese Masterpieces 17: Naraju Koide" (1976, Chuokoron-Shinsha)

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洋画家。明治20年10月13日大阪市に生まれる。1907年（明治40）東京美術学校日本画科に入り、のち白馬会(はくばかい)の原町洋画研究所に学び、西洋画科に転じて14年（大正3）に卒業する。大阪に帰り、院展洋画部に出品ののち、19年、初めて二科展に出品した『Nの家族』で樗牛(ちょぎゅう)賞を受け、翌年は『少女於梅(おうめ)像』で二科賞を受け、二科会会友となる。21～22年渡欧して、ドイツや南仏にも旅行し、帰国の翌年二科会会員となる。鍋井克之(なべいかつゆき)ら関西在住の二科会員たちと大阪に信濃橋(しなのばし)洋画研究所を設けて後進を育成し、昭和初めには新発足の全関西洋画展で指導的立場にたった。以後しだいに裸婦の制作が多くなり、『横たわる裸身』『支那(しな)寝台の裸女』などに要約したボリュームの処理と油彩の粘りと輝きを生かし、近代日本の裸体画表現に独自の画境を確立した。またガラス絵にも長じ、谷崎潤一郎の新聞小説『蓼喰(たでく)ふ虫』ほかの挿絵を手がけたり、『楢重雑筆』『めでたき風景』『大切な雰囲気』などの随筆集を刊行したり、多才ぶりを発揮した。昭和6年2月13日、44歳で没。

［小倉忠夫］

『『日本の名画17　小出楢重』（1976・中央公論社）』

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