Footnotes

• Provenance:
  Hosokawka Rikizo, acquired directly from the artist
  Meguro Gajoen Museum Collection
  
  Published: Kindai no bijinga: Meguro Gajoen korekushon (Tokyo, 1988), p. 201, no. 244.
  
  Tateishi Harumi was born in Saga Prefecture, moving to Tokyo in 1928 to pursue training as a painter. The following year he began studies under the newly famous Nihonga painter Ito Shinsui (1898-1972). Something of a prodigy, Harumi soon astounded his new teacher and fellow students with his skills at sketching, a technique he first studied in Saga under the Western-style painter Kajiwara Kango (1887-1958). In 1929, the year that Harumi became his student, Shinsui presided over the first exhibition of the Roho Gajuku painting group, composed of students specializing in portraiture. Three years later Harumi would win first prize in the third such exhibition with his painting, Ume kaoru. He continued to exhibit at the Teiten and Shin-Bunten until World War II, and afterwards at the Nitten. He was awarded many prizes for his work, and came to be celebrated towards the end of his long life as "the last of the painters of beautiful women (bijingaka)."

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Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art

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