Top Quality Art - Salmon and Sardines

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Top Quality Art - Salmon and Sardines

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Tsuchida Bakusen

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Painting - Color On Silk

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【Tsuchida Bakusen】
「Salmon and Sardines」
（Top Quality Image Edition）

「鮭と鰯」 （1924）（最高画質版）


【Tsuchida Bakusen】
(土田麦僊, February 9, 1887 – June 10, 1936) was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter in the Nihonga style, active during the Taishō and early Shōwa eras. His birth name was Tsuchida Kinji (土田金二)

He was born on Sado island in Niigata Prefecture into a wealthy and influential family. His younger brother was the noted philosopher Tsuchida Kyōson (1891-1934). As an adolescent, Bakusen's father put him on the career path of a Buddhist priest, but he fled the temple where he was apprenticed in order to study art instead. He was accepted as a student by painter Takeuchi Seihō, and later studied at the Kyoto Kaiga Senmon Gakko (present day Kyoto City University of Arts) from which he graduated in 1911.

In 1918, Bakusen established a painting collective together with Murakami Kagaku, Ono Chikkyō, Sakakibara Shihō, and Nonagase Banka called the Kokuga Society (Kokuga Sōsaku Kyōkai, or "Society for the Creation of National Painting"), which was used as a vehicle to disseminate the group's eclectic style combining western yōga and Japanese (Nihonga) painting techniques and styles. His favorite subjects were women (bijinga), especially portraits of maiko, but he also painted flowers and still life themes. The Kokuga Society established its own annual exhibition, the Kokuten (abbreviation for "Kokuga Sōsaku Kyōkai Tenrankai") in competition with the increasingly restrictive Bunten Exhibitions in 1918. Seven Kokuten exhibitions were held between 1918 and 1928.

In 1921, the Kokuga Society went on hiatus when Bakusen traveled to Europe with Ono Chikkyō to tour Western art museums. They returned after a little more than a year, and resumed the Kokuga Society in 1923. Bakusen was particularly fond of French Impressionism and post-impressionism, especially the works of Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne, and collected several of their works while in Europe. The Kokuga Society broke up in 1928, due to financial difficulties and internal disagreements. In 1934, Bakusen was appointed to the Teikoku Bijutsuin (Imperial Art Academy). He died in June 1936 of pancreatic cancer. His grave is at the temple of Chishaku-in in Kyoto.

One of his works from 1918, Bathhouse Maiden (湯女図 Yunazu), now at the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art is registered as an Important Cultural Property (ICP) by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. However, his painting Maiko in Garden (舞妓林泉 Bugi rinsen) from 1923, owned by the same museum, is considered his masterpiece.


【土田　麦僊】（Tsuchida Bakusen / つちだ ばくせん）
1887年（明治20年）2月9日 - 1936年（昭和11年）6月10日　大正～昭和期の日本画家。
麦僊はルノワールやゴーギャンに傾倒し、伝統的な日本画に西洋絵画の重厚なマチエールや合理的な空間把握、幾何学的な構図などを取り入れた新たな絵画の創造を目指していた。大正10年（1921年）、麦僊は竹喬、晩花とともに渡欧。約1年半に亘り、西洋絵画の研究と制作を行っていた。麦僊にはコレクターとしての一面もあり、この渡欧中にルノワール、セザンヌなどの西洋絵画を収集していた。

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August 25th, 2018