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was a Japanese sculptor and artist, noted for his great artistry and skill in bronze casting.
Ōshima Joun holdings at the University Art Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts
* ttp://www.miyamoto-shoko.com Miyamoto-Shoko Silversmiths, Tokyo* ttp://www.artnet.com/artist/425404617/oshima-joun.html Ōshima Joun on Artnet.com* ttp://www.bonhams.com/search/?q=oshimajoun&main_index_key=lot#/q2=oshima%2520joun&m2=2?q=oshima%2Bjoun Ōshima Joun at Bonhams {{DEFAULTSORT:Oshima, Joun People of the Meiji era 20th-century Japanese sculptors 19th-century Japanese sculptors 1858 births 1940 deaths
Career
Joun was born to a family of metalworkers and was famous for his skill in casting bronze. He was the son of Ōshima Takajiro, whose own father Ōshima Yasubei was the first metal craftsman in the family.''Meiji no Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan:Metalwork Part II'' (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art) Entry no. 102. "Oshima Joun." 1995. London: Kibo Foundation. He was a professor at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (東京美術学校 ''Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō''; name changed in 2008 toTokyo University of the Arts
or is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter ...
) from 1887 until 1932.
His studio, Sanseisha — run with his brother Ōshima Yasutaro, also a skilled artist — was very successful and at one point employed 11 assistants. During the period 1875 to 1879, the studio "produced some of the finest bronzes ever produced in Japan."Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., 1911. s.v. "Japan/Bronze Casting." Cambridge:University Press. Old labels on Joun's ''tomobako'' (wooden storage boxes) suggest that the well-established Ginza (in Tokyo) purveyor of silver and other fine metal wares Miyamoto-Shoko (established 1880) may also have handled some of Joun's sales.
Many of Joun's students (Ryūki, Chōkichi Suzuki (see mention in Victoria and Albert Museum
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), Sessei Okazaki, Kumazō Hasegawa, Gorosaburō Kanaya, Eisuke Jomi) went on to achieve distinction of their own. He exhibited at the 2nd National Industrial Exposition in 1881, and at the Paris Exposition Universelle (1900)
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, and the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910.
Ōshima Joun died in Tokyo on January 4, 1940, at 83 years old.
Art-name
Ōshima Joun used the ''gō'' orart-name
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一乗軒 (Ichijoken) and that inscription can be found on many of his inscribed boxes. His brother Ōshima Yasutaro was also an accomplished artist who used the art name Shokaken 笑華軒. There is uncertainty as to whether the ''gō'' Shokaken may have also been used by Joun’s father. Additionally, a small group of bronzes (which appear to be made for export) have been identified that are signed Shokaken. While these signatures have an identical pronunciation, they differ by the use of a different (single) character 笑花軒 and are believed to be associated with the Ōshima family.
The Ōshima Joun obituary at the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties and Francis Brinkley
Francis Brinkley (30 December 1841 – 12 October 1912) was an Anglo-Irish newspaper owner, editor and scholar who resided in Meiji period Japan for over 40 years, where he was the author of numerous books on Japanese culture, art and architect ...
's 1902 ''Japan: Its History, Arts, and Literature'', says that Ōshima Joun was an art name taken by Ōshima Katsujiro.Captain F. Brinkley. ''Japan: Its History, Arts, and Literature''. riental Series, Volume VII.(Boston and Tokyo: JB Millet Company. 1902. Pp. 144-145, and P. 20 of Appendix: Names, Periods, and Schools of Japanese Pictorial Artists.)
Notes
References
* ''Meiji no Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan:Metalwork Part II'' (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art) Entry no. 102. "Oshima Joun." 1995. London: Kibo Foundation. * Clark, John. 2001. ''Japanese Exchanges in Art, 1850s to 1930s with Britain, continental Europe, and the USA: Papers and Research Materials'' Sydney: Power Publications, 89, 334–335. * Oliver Impey and Malcolm Fairley. 1911. ''The Dragon King of the Sea,'' Oxford:Ashmolean Museum.External links
Ōshima Joun holdings at the University Art Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts
* ttp://www.miyamoto-shoko.com Miyamoto-Shoko Silversmiths, Tokyo* ttp://www.artnet.com/artist/425404617/oshima-joun.html Ōshima Joun on Artnet.com* ttp://www.bonhams.com/search/?q=oshimajoun&main_index_key=lot#/q2=oshima%2520joun&m2=2?q=oshima%2Bjoun Ōshima Joun at Bonhams {{DEFAULTSORT:Oshima, Joun People of the Meiji era 20th-century Japanese sculptors 19th-century Japanese sculptors 1858 births 1940 deaths