Terasaki Kōgyō or Terazaki Kōgyō (born Chutaro Terasaki or Terazaki; 1866–1919) was a Japanese painter who completed many works for the publishing house
Hakubunkan
is a Japanese publisher, publishing company founded in 1887 amidst the wealth and military prosperity of the Meiji era. Hakubunkan entered the publishing arena by printing a nationalist magazine as well as expanding into printing, advertising, pa ...
and their literary magazine ''
Bungei Kurabu''.
Biography
Kōgyō was born in
Dewa Province. He began painting at the age of 16. In 1888, at the age of 20, Kōgyō studied under the painter Hoan (Hirafuku Suian, 1844–90) and changed to the style of the
Shijō school
The , also known as the ''Maruyama–Shijō'' school, was a Japanese school of painting.
History
It was an offshoot school of the Maruyama school of Japanese painting founded by Maruyama Ōkyo, and his former student Matsumura Goshun in the ...
. When the
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War ( ja, 日露戦争, Nichiro sensō, Japanese-Russian War; russian: Ру́сско-япóнская войнá, Rússko-yapónskaya voyná) was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1 ...
started, he joined the
Imperial Army of Japan
The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor o ...
as a painter.
References
Further reading
* S. Noma (ed.): ''Terazaki Kōgyō''. In: ''Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia''. Kodansha, 1993 , p. 1555
* Tazawa, Yutaka: ''Terazaki Kōgyō''. In: ''Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art''. Kodansha International, 1981 ISBN 087011488
* Laurance P. Roberts: ''Terazaki Kōgyō''. In: ''A Dictionary of Japanese Artists''. Weatherhill, 1976
19th-century Japanese painters
1866 births
1919 deaths
20th-century Japanese painters
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