Taikan Jyoji
Taikan may refer to: *Yokoyama Taikan (1868 – 1958), a Japanese painter * Kokka Taikan, a compilation of Japanese waka poetry *Taikan Range The Taikan Range (russian: Тайканский хребет; zh, 札格第嶺) is a mountain range in Khabarovsk Krai, Russian Far East. The closest inhabited place is Chumikan, Tuguro-Chumikansky District. The nearest airport is Chumikan A ...

Yokoyama Taikan
was the art-name of a major figure in pre-World War II Japanese painting. He is notable for helping create the Japanese painting technique of ''Nihonga''. Early life Yokoyama was born in Mito city, Ibaraki Prefecture, as the eldest son of Sakai Sutehiko, a samurai serving the Mito clan. His earliest name was Hidezō, and later Hidematsu. With his family, he moved to Tokyo in 1878. He studied at the ''Tōkyō Furitsu Daiichi Chūgakkō'' (today's Hibiya High School), and was interested in the English language and in Western-style oil painting. This led him to study pencil drawing with a painter, Watanabe Fumisaburō. In 1888, he was adopted into his mother's family, taking the surname "Yokoyama" and changed his personal name to Hidemaro. In 1889, Yokoyama enrolled in the first graduating class of the ''Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō'' (the predecessor to the Tokyo University of the Arts), which had just been opened by Okakura Kakuzō (aka Okakura Tenshin). In school, he studied und ...
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Kokka Taikan
The ''Kokka Taikan'' (国歌大観) is a compilation encyclopedia of Japanese waka poetry early and modern, also serving as the ''de facto'' academic indexing system for poetry about which little is known. It is published by Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan. In academic literature or literary criticism, the ''Kokka taikan'' reference number is more likely to be provided for poems by unknown or anonymous authors or when the year or location is unknown. For example, where records of poetry competitions in notable households are harvested, only a period and the location may be known; these poems may be valuable if referenced by masterpieces from the same or rival literary group. Compilation and extent The 2012 2nd edition of the ''Kokka Taikan'' comprises over 450,000 Japanese and Chinese poems.Kadokaw''Kokka taikan'' DVD-ROM page/ref> The original encyclopedia, encompassing only Japanese poetry, was compiled by Matsushita Daisaburo and Fumio Watanabe and published between 1901 and 1903. ...
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