Ishikawa Kinichiro
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| Native name | 石川欽一郎 |
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8 August 1871 Shizuoka City, Japan |
| Died | 10 September 1945 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Telecommunications School of the Ministry of Communications |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Notable work | The Old Path at Toyohara (豐原舊道) |
| Style | Watercolor |
| Awards | Jiaoban Mountain Path, Xiamen, Riverside selected for the 1st Taiwan Art Exhibition; entered as works by juror |
Kinichiro Ishikawa (石川 欽一郎 Ishikawa Kin'ichiro, 8 August 1871–10 September 1945) was born in Shizuoka, Japan and visited Japanese-era Taiwan several times to study. He is recognized as one of the torchbearers of modern Taiwanese Western art.
Ishikawa Kinichiro, a watercolor painter and champion of Taiwanese Western art education, was born in Shizuoka City, Japan. His father was a former official of the Tokugawa government during the bakumatsu (late Tokugawa Shogunate). He was infatuated with painting from a very early age, but his father did not approve of his artistic pursuits.
In 1888, he entered the Tokyo Telecommunications School of the Ministry of Communications. In order to sustain his interest in painting, aside from using prints of English works to engage in self-study, he also studied Western paintings under Shoudai Tameshige. In 1889, he entered the Ministry of Finance’s Printing Department and joined the Meiji Fine Art Society. He traveled, with the English watercolor painter Alfred East (1849-1913) acting as his Japanese language translator, and this experience inspired his interest in watercolors. By 1906, he began to publish essays in the watercolor magazine "Mizue" (Water Painting). He began to teach watercolor painting in Taiwan in 1906.
Due to his proficiency in the English language and his painting ability, Ishikawa worked as an official translator of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office. In 1900, he left for China as a result of the Boxer Rebellion and, from 1904 to 1905, he was stationed in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. While engaged at various military posts, he had several opportunities to draw battlefield scenes.
In 1907, he visited Taiwan for the first time as a military translator for the Taiwan Governor-General’s Office. From 1910 onwards, he served as an instructor at Taiwan Governor-General's National Language School’s Painting Division. In 1913, he organized other Japanese literati in Taiwan to form the Bancha Society (番茶會, a coffee meeting group) and promote cultural activities in Taiwan.
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