(3 July 1887 – 24 December 1924) was a Japanese
yōga
is a style of artistic painting in Japan, typically of Japanese subjects, themes, or landscapes, but using Western (European) artistic conventions, techniques, and materials. The term was coined in the Meiji period (1868–1912) to distingui ...
painter best known for his portraits of Sōma Toshiko, including ''Girl'' (1914).
Life
Nakamura Tsune was born in 1887 in what is now
Mito City, into a family that had served as
samurai
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in the
Mito domain
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.
While recuperating, he developed aspirations to become a painter, and in 1906 joined the , before moving the following year to the . That same year he was baptised. In 1908 he began to socialize with artists including
Ogiwara Rokuzan at the Atelier in
Shinjuku
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. Two of his works, ''Cloudy Morning'' and ''Cliffs'' (now in the
Museum of the Imperial Collections
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) featured in the Third
Bunten
The is a Japanese art exhibition established in 1907. The exhibition consists of five art faculties: Japanese Style and Western Style Painting, Sculpture, Craft as Art, and Sho (calligraphy). During each exhibition, works of the great masters ar ...
Exhibition in 1909, the latter receiving a commendation.
In 1911 he moved into a studio behind the Nakamura-ya. The following year
haemoptysis
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began. In 1913 Sōma Toshiko, daughter of
Aizō and
Kokkō, became his model. In 1914, ''Girl'' won a prize at the Eighth
Bunten
The is a Japanese art exhibition established in 1907. The exhibition consists of five art faculties: Japanese Style and Western Style Painting, Sculpture, Craft as Art, and Sho (calligraphy). During each exhibition, works of the great masters ar ...
Exhibition. Later that year he visited
Izu Ōshima
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. In 1915 his petition for the hand of Toshiko in marriage was opposed by her parents (she went on to marry
Rash Behari Bose
Rash Behari Bose (; 25 May 1886 – 21 January 1945) was an Indian revolutionary leader and freedom fighter who fought against the British Empire. He was one of the key organisers of the Ghadar Mutiny and founded the Indian Independence Lea ...
). In 1916 he built a studio in in Shinjuku and exhibited ''Dr.
Tanakadate'' and ''Nude'' at the Eleventh Bunten Exhibition. His ''Portrait of
Vasili Eroshenko'' was exhibited at the Second
Teiten Exhibition in 1920.
In December 1924 at the age of 37 he died in his studio in Shimo-Ochiai. His remains were interred at in Mito the following year.
Shinjuku Nakamura Tsune Atelier Memorial Museum
The opened in Shinjuku in 2013. Admission to the museum is free.
Gallery
File:NakamuraTsune-1908-Study for Female Nude.png, ''Study for Female Nude'', 1908
File:Nakamura Tsune - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Self-Portrait'', 1909
File:NakamuraTsune-1912-Portrait of Mr.Tago Mitsutoshi.png, ''Portrait of Tago Mitsutoshi'', 1912
File:NakamuraTsune-1912-A Girl with a Hut.png, ''Girl with a Hat'', 1912
File:NakamuraTsune-1913-Portrait of Mr.I's Father.png, ''Portrait of Mr. I's Father'', 1913
File:NakamuraTsune-1916-Portrait of Dr.Tanakadate.png, ''Portrait of Tanakadate Aikitsu'', 1916
File:Portrait of Vasilii Yaroschenko by Nakamura Tsune (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo).jpg, ''Portrait of Vasili Eroshenko'', 1920
See also
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List of Yōga painters
This is an alphabetical list of painters who are known for painting in the ''Yōga'' style. Some artists also painted in the Japanese ''Nihonga'' style, and that the division between the two groups could be blurred at points.
Artists are listed b ...
References
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1887 births
1924 deaths
20th-century Japanese painters