Kotaro Migishi

Western-style painter. Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido (now Sapporo City). In 1921 (Taisho 10), he graduated from Sapporo First Middle School and moved to Tokyo, where he continued to study Western-style painting while still at school, despite the hardships of studying. He exhibited at the Chuo Art Exhibition and the Shunyo-kai Exhibition, and in 1921 he won the Shunyo-kai Prize as the top prize winner. In 1926, he became an exemption from the Shunyo-kai and traveled to China, including Shanghai. He gradually shifted from his early simple style to a more dynamic style, often using clowns as his subject matter. In 1930 (Showa 5), ​​he participated in the founding of the Independent Art Association. In 1933, he switched to a poetic surrealist style of painting, using orchestras, butterflies, and shells as subjects, but in the summer of the following year, he died suddenly of a stomach ulcer in Nagoya while traveling. His widow Setsuko and his eldest son, Kotaro, were both Western-style painters. His representative works include "Boy Clown," "Marionette," "Orchestra," and "Sea and Reflection." In 1967, the Migishi family donated 159 pieces of art, including 61 oil paintings, watercolors and drawings, to the Hokkaido Prefectural Government, and these were used to establish the Hokkaido Museum of Art (now the Hokkaido Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art).

[Tadao Ogura]

"Complete Collection of Migishi Kotaro's Artworks, edited by Migishi Setsuko (1983, Asahi Shimbun)" ▽ "Collection of Migishi Kotaro's Sketches (1983, Nichido Publishing)" ▽ "Commentary on Modern Japanese Art 8: Migishi Kotaro and Others, by Takumi Hideo (1976, Shueisha)" ▽ "Migishi Kotaro, by Tanaka Jo (1969, Nichido Publishing)"

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洋画家。北海道札幌区（現札幌市）生まれ。1921年（大正10）札幌第一中学校を卒業して上京し、苦学しながら在学中からの洋画修業を続ける。中央美術展、春陽会展に出品し、24年春陽会賞を首席で受賞、26年には同会の無鑑査となり、上海(シャンハイ)など中国へ旅行する。初期の素朴画風からしだいに動勢をはらむ画風へ移り、道化などを多く題材とする。30年（昭和5）独立美術協会の創立に参加。33年からオーケストラ、蝶(ちょう)、貝殻などを題材とする詩的なシュルレアリスム画風に転じるが、翌年夏、旅行中に名古屋で胃潰瘍(かいよう)のため急死した。未亡人節子と長男黄太郎はともに洋画家。代表作に『少年道化』『マリオネット』『オーケストラ』『海と射光』などがある。なお、67年に油彩61点、水彩・素描など159点が三岸家から北海道庁に寄贈され、これを基に北海道立美術館（現北海道立三岸好太郎美術館）が開設された。

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『三岸節子編『三岸好太郎全画集』（1983・朝日新聞社）』▽『『三岸好太郎素描集』（1983・日動出版部）』▽『匠秀夫解説『現代日本の美術8　三岸好太郎他』（1976・集英社）』▽『田中穣著『三岸好太郎』（1969・日動出版部）』

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