The or "White Horse Society" was a fluid
late Meiji association of Japanese practitioners of
yōga or Western-style painting. Established in June 1896, thirteen exhibitions were staged before the Society was disbanded in 1911 (the missing years being 1906, 1908, and 1911). Fuelled by disagreements over style (including the purple/brown controversy, or that between the and the ) and the rigid bureaucratic methods of the , hitherto the dominant yōga association,
Kuroda Seiki,
Kume Keiichirō, and others founded the new group, named after their favourite ''Shirouma'' (the
characters can also be read Hakuba) brand of
unfiltered sake. Other participating and exhibiting artists included
Yamamoto Hōsui
was a Japanese artist. He is also sometimes known as Yamamoto Tamenosuke.
Biography
He was born in Mino Province. He first trained in the Nanga (Bunjinga) style before studying Western painting with Charles Wirgman and Goseda Horyu (1827–9 ...
,
Okada Saburōsuke,
Wada Eisaku, ,
Aoki Shigeru
was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in combining Japanese legends and religious subjects with the '' yōga'' (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting.
Biography
Aoki was born to an ex- samurai c ...
, and
Fujishima Takeji
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 No ...
.
Gallery
Poster for the 6th Hakubakai Exhibition (1901).jpg, Poster for the Sixth Hakuba-kai Exhibition (1901)
Poster for the 9th Hakubakai Exhibition (1904).jpg, Poster for the Ninth Hakuba-kai Exhibition (1904)
See also
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Nihonga
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Reminiscence of the Tempyō Era
is a 1902 painting by yōga artist Fujishima Takeji (1867–1943). Inspired by nostalgia for the Tempyō era and, like his ''Butterflies'' and covers for the literary magazine ''Myōjō'', an influential exemplar of Meiji romanticism, it has be ...
''
References
External links
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Contemporary newspaper articles relating to the Hakuba-kai
Schools of Japanese art
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