Fujishima Takeji
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Fujishima Takeji in France (1905-1910)
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| Born |
July 13, 1882 Kagoshima Satsuma Domain, Japan |
| Died | October 15, 1943 (aged 61) Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Yoga |
| Sunrise over the Eastern Sea | |
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| Japanese: 東海旭光 | |
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| Artist | Fujishima Takeji |
| Year | 1932 |
| Type | Oil painting |
| Dimensions | 65.2 cm × 90.9 cm (25.7 in × 35.8 in) |
| Location | Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo |
Fujishima Takeji (藤島 武二?, October 15, 1867 – March 19, 1943) was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and impressionism within the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.
Fujishima was born to an ex-samurai class household in Kagoshima, Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, where his father had been a retainer of the Shimazu clan daimyō. After studying art at Kagoshima Middle School he left home in 1884 to pursue his studies in Tokyo, first with Kawabata Gyokusho, a Shijō school nihonga artist. However, Fujishima was attracted to the new western-style oil painting techniques, and switched to yōga-style painting, which he learned under Yamamoto Hōsui and Soyama Yukihiro. His graduation piece, “Cruelty” was exhibited at the 3rd Meiji Art Association Exhibition in 1891, where it was viewed by noted novelist and art critic Mori Ōgai.
Fujishima moved to Tsu in Mie Prefecture in 1893, where he was an assistant teacher at the Mie Prefectural Elementary School, but soon returned to Tokyo in 1896 under the sponsorship of Kuroda Seiki to become an assistant professor at the Tokyo Art School's Western Painting Department. He also joined Kuroda’s art coterie, the Hakubakai (White Horse Society).
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