Uemura Shoen

A Japanese painter. His real name was Tsune. He was born in Kyoto on April 23, 1875. In 1887 (Meiji 20), he entered the Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting and studied under Suzuki Shonen, but dropped out the following year to enter the Shonen School, where he studied under Kono Bairei and then Takeuchi Seiho. His painting "Four Seasons of Beauties" won an award at the 3rd Domestic Industrial Exposition in 1890, and he continued to exhibit at the Japan Art Association, the Japan Youth Painting Exhibition, and other exhibitions, opening up a unique realm in the field of bijin-ga. His paintings gained fame when "Long Night" won third prize at the 1st Bunten Exhibition in 1907 (Meiji 40), and "Moonlight Shadow" won third prize at the 2nd Bunten the following year. His paintings won second prize at the 9th Bunten Exhibition in 1915 (Taisho 4), and he was promoted to permanent non-examination the following year. In 1924, she was appointed as a member of the Teiten Committee, in 1934 (Showa 9), as an associate of the Teiten Exhibition, and in 1941, as a member of the Imperial Art Academy. In 1948 (Showa 23), she became the first woman to receive the Order of Culture, but passed away the following year, on August 28, 1949, at a mountain villa in Heijo Village, Nara Prefecture (now Nara City), where she had evacuated. Her style of painting was based on the traditions of the Shijo school, but with a modern sensibility. She continued to paint fresh works with women of good families or townspeople as the subject, and we can see a change from the emotional expression of her early period to the intellectual expression of her later period. Representative works of her early period include the two works exhibited in the early Bunten exhibitions mentioned above, as well as "Flame" and "Musume Miyuki," and her later works include "Mother and Child," "Introductory Dance," "Snow, Moon, and Flowers," "Evening Dusk," and "Late Autumn." The Japanese painter Uemura Shoko (real name Shintaro) was her own son.

[Minoru Harada]

"Uemura Shōen, edited by Uemura Shōkō, special edition: Seibisho and Seibisho Shuui (1976, Kodansha)" ▽ "Uemura Shōen, edited by Uemura Shōkō (Nikkei Pocket Gallery)" ▽ "Complete Collection of Modern Japanese Beauty Paintings 1: Uemura Shōen" (1977, Shueisha)" ▽ "Uemura Shōen, by Kusanagi Natsuko (Shincho Japanese Art Library)"

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日本画家。本名津禰(つね)。明治8年4月23日京都に生まれる。1887年（明治20）京都府画学校に入学、鈴木松年(しょうねん)に師事したが、翌年中退して松年塾に入り、さらに幸野楳嶺(こうのばいれい)、ついで竹内栖鳳(せいほう)に学んだ。1890年第3回内国勧業博覧会で『四季美人図』が褒賞となり、その後日本美術協会、日本青年絵画共進会などに出品を続けて美人画に独自の境地を開いていった。1907年（明治40）の第1回文展で『長夜』が、翌年の第2回文展で『月かげ』が三等賞を受賞して画名が高まり、1915年（大正4）第9回文展で『花がたみ』が二等賞になり、翌年永久無鑑査に推された。さらに1924年帝展委員、1934年（昭和9）帝展参与、1941年帝国芸術院会員。1948年（昭和23）に女性としては初めての文化勲章を受けたが、翌昭和24年8月28日、疎開先の奈良県平城(へいじょう)村（現奈良市）の山荘で永眠。その画風は四条派の伝統を基礎にしてそれに近代感覚を盛ったもので、良家の、あるいは町方の女性を主題に清新な作品を描き続け、前期の情緒的な表現から後期の理知的表現への変化を認めることができる。前期を代表するのは前記の初期文展出品の2作のほか『焔(ほのお)』『娘深雪(むすめみゆき)』などで、後期には『母子』『序の舞』『雪月花』『夕暮』『晩秋』などがある。日本画家の上村松篁(しょうこう)（本名信太郎）は実子。

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『上村松篁編『上村松園』別冊『青眉抄・青眉抄拾遺』（1976・講談社）』▽『上村松篁編『上村松園』（日経ポケット・ギャラリー）』▽『『現代日本美人画全集1　上村松園』（1977・集英社）』▽『草薙奈津子著『上村松園』（新潮日本美術文庫）』

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