Kosugi Hoan - Kosugi Hoan

Painter. Born December 30, 1881 in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture. His real name was Kunitaro. In 1895 (Meiji 28), he dropped out of Utsunomiya Middle School and studied oil painting and watercolor painting under Ioshiro Bunya. He moved to Tokyo and studied at the Aoibashi Western Painting Institute and then at Koyama Shotaro's Fudosha, and in 1902 (Meiji 35), he became a member of the Taiheiyo Gakai. The following year, he used the pen name Misei and joined the Kinji Gahosha Publishing Company, serving in the Russo-Japanese War. In 1908, he joined the literary and art magazine Hosun, which included Ishii Hakutei and others, and began exhibiting at the Bunten Exhibition that same year, winning third prize at the 4th exhibition and second prizes at the 5th exhibition (exhibiting Suigo) and the 6th exhibition. He traveled to France in 1910 (Taisho 2), and returned to Japan the following year to participate in the revival of the Japan Art Institute, where he presided over the Western painting section and displayed his own unique oriental romanticism in works such as "Laozi Exits the Pass." After the section was dissolved, he founded the Shunyo-kai with his comrades in 1947. In 1954 (Showa 4), he traveled to China, changed his pen name to Hoan, and gradually began to produce more ink paintings. In 1960, he became a member of the Teikoku Bijutsuin (Imperial Academy of Fine Arts) (he declined membership in the Japan Art Academy in 1959). In 1965 (Showa 20), he moved to Akakura, Niigata Prefecture, and opened up a world of elegant ink painting that could be called new literati painting. He was also known as a poet, and published collections of poems such as "Hometown" and collections of essays such as "Returning Home." He passed away on April 16, 1964.

[Tadao Ogura]

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画家。明治14年12月30日、栃木県日光に生まれる。本名国太郎。1895年（明治28）宇都宮中学校を中退し、五百城文哉(いおしろぶんや)に油絵、水彩画を学ぶ。上京して葵橋(あおいばし)洋画研究所、ついで小山正太郎(しょうたろう)の不同舎に学び、1902年（明治35）には太平洋画会会員となる。翌年から未醒(みせい)の号を用い、近事画報社に入り、日露戦争に従軍する。08年石井柏亭(はくてい)らの美術文芸誌『方寸』の同人に加わり、この年から文展に出品を始め、第4回展で三等賞、第5回展（『水郷』出品）、第6回展と引き続き二等賞を受ける。13年（大正2）渡仏し、翌年帰国して日本美術院の再興に参加、同人として洋画部を主宰し、『老子出関』ほかに独自の東洋的浪漫(ろうまん)主義を示した。洋画部解散後、22年同志と春陽会を創立する。29年（昭和4）中国に旅行し、放庵と号を改め、しだいに水墨画の制作が多くなった。35年帝国美術院会員となる（1959年日本芸術院会員を辞退）。45年（昭和20）から新潟県赤倉に居を移し、新文人画というべき気品ある水墨画境を開いた。歌人としても知られ、『故郷』ほかの歌集、また『帰去来』ほかの随筆集がある。昭和39年4月16日没。

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