Imamura Shiko - Imamura Shiko

Japanese painter. His real name was Jusaburo. He was born in Yokohama on December 16, 1880. In 1897 (Meiji 30), at the age of 17, he became a student of Matsumoto Fuko. In 1898, he was selected for the Japan Art Association Exhibition, and from the following year, he exhibited at the Japan Art Academy and Japan Painting Association Joint Exhibition. In 1901 (Meiji 34), he formed the Kojikai with Yasuda Yukihiko, a student of Kobori Tomomoto, and others, and further joined the Tatsumigakai in search of new horizons in historical painting. In 1907, he became acquainted with Okakura Tenshin and visited the Japan Art Academy Research Institute in Izura (Ibaraki Prefecture) to further his research. "Gokarei," exhibited at the 5th Bunten Exhibition in 1918, shows the results of such efforts, while the eight-panel "Eight Views of Omi," exhibited at the 6th Bunten Exhibition the following year (1919), attracted attention as an innovative landscape painting that blended Nanga and Post-Impressionist styles. In 1919, he traveled to India. In the same year, he participated in the revival of the Japan Art Institute as a member, and at its first exhibition he exhibited two volumes of "The Book of Passion," his masterpiece, with its bold composition and clear colors. In the same year, he founded the Sekiyokai with Hayami Gyoshu, Omoda Seiju, and Nakamura Gakuryo, and continued to be passionate about the modernization of Japanese painting, but in the following year he fell ill and passed away on February 28, 1916, at the young age of 35. Other well-known works include "Sermon," "Wind God and Thunder God," and "Shiomizaka."

[Minoru Harada]

"Complete Collection of Contemporary Japanese Art 3: Shunso Hishida/Shiko Imamura" (1972, Shueisha) "The Volume of Hot Country" (included in the Complete Collection of Contemporary Japanese Picture Scrolls 7, 1982, Shogakukan)

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日本画家。本名寿三郎。明治13年12月16日横浜に生まれる。1897年（明治30）17歳のとき松本楓湖(ふうこ)の門に入った。98年日本美術協会展に入選、翌年から日本美術院日本絵画協会連合共進会に出品した。1901年（明治34）小堀鞆音(こぼりともと)門下の安田靫彦(ゆきひこ)らと紅児会(こうじかい)を結成、さらに巽画会(たつみがかい)にも加わって歴史画の新境地を求め、07年には岡倉天心の知遇を得て五浦(いづら)（茨城県）の日本美術院研究所を訪れ、研究を深めている。11年第5回文展出品の『護花鈴(ごかれい)』はそうした精進の成果を示すものであるが、翌12年（大正1）の第6回文展に出品の『近江(おうみ)八景』8幅は、南画と後期印象派風の表現とが渾然(こんぜん)する斬新(ざんしん)な風景画として注目された。14年インドに旅行。同年の日本美術院再興に同人として参画、その第1回展に大胆な構成と明快な色調をもち、彼の代表作となる『熱国の巻(まき)』2巻を出品した。やはりこの年、速水御舟(はやみぎょしゅう)、小茂田青樹(おもだせいじゅ)、中村岳陵(がくりょう)らと赤燿会(せきようかい)を結成し、日本画の近代化になお盛んな意欲を燃やしたが、翌15年病に倒れ、大正5年2月28日、35歳の若さで世を去った。作品にはほかに『説法』『風神雷神』『潮見坂』などがよく知られている。

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『『現代日本美術全集3　菱田春草／今村紫紅』（1972・集英社）』▽『「熱国の巻」（『現代日本絵巻全集7』所収・1982・小学館）』

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