{"id":102753,"date":"2024-07-04T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T01:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/?p=102753"},"modified":"2024-07-23T11:47:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T02:47:15","slug":"7-artists-of-the-japanese-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/7-artists-of-the-japanese-20th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time and a Place: 7 Artists Who Plotted a Course Through the Japanese 20th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the years, one of the least wasteful ways I have found to waste my time, has been to head off to an (almost) randomly chosen area of <a href=\"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/tokyo-skytree\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Tokyo<\/a> and immerse myself in whichever I find of the city\u2019s generous abundance of galleries and museums. I have visited the vast and echoey, the cheerful and bright, the intimate and inviting, the small and ever-so-slightly snobby, and most frequently of all, the free of charge. I always leave, provided I have remembered my glasses, feeling at least a little bit better informed, and quite a bit inspired.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a relic of the 20th Century myself, <strong>I take a particular interest in the artistic and cultural history of that period, so I have chosen for this list artists whose works say something to me about the flow of creative ideas across those years in Japan, as well as the country itself at the time of their creation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"838\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.voyapon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/13170820\/1024px-Kuroda-seiki-kohan00-6-1b.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102854\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.voyapon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/13170820\/1024px-Kuroda-seiki-kohan00-6-1b.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.voyapon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/13170820\/1024px-Kuroda-seiki-kohan00-6-1b-500x409.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/s3.voyapon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/13170820\/1024px-Kuroda-seiki-kohan00-6-1b-150x123.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emuseum.nich.go.jp\/detail?langId=en&amp;webView=null&amp;content_base_id=100623&amp;content_part_id=000&amp;content_pict_id=000\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Seiki Kuroda&#8217;s Lakeside<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ht-block-toc  is-style-outline htoc htoc--position-wide toc-list-style-plain\" data-htoc-state=\"expanded\"><span class=\"htoc__title\"><span class=\"ht_toc_title\">Table of Contents<\/span><span class=\"htoc__toggle\"><\/span><\/span><div class=\"htoc__itemswrap\"><ul class=\"ht_toc_list\"><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#htoc-a-single-ray-of-brightness-into-the-20th-century\">A Single Ray of Brightness (Into the 20th Century)<\/a><ul class=\"ht_toc_child_list\"><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#htoc-seiki-kuroda-1866-1924\">Seiki Kuroda (1866 &#8211; 1924)<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#htoc-hasui-kawase-1883-1957\">Hasui Kawase (1883 &#8211; 1957)<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#htoc-tamako-kataoka-1905-2008\">Tamako Kataoka (1905 &#8211; 2008)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#htoc-myth-of-tomorrow-mid-20th-century\">Myth of Tomorrow (Mid 20th Century)<\/a><ul class=\"ht_toc_child_list\"><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#htoc-taro-okamoto-1911-1996\">Taro Okamoto (1911 &#8211; 1996)<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#htoc-tadanori-yokoo-1936\">Tadanori Yokoo (1936 -)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#htoc-lost-decades-end-of-the-20th-century\">Lost Decades (End of the 20th Century)<\/a><ul class=\"ht_toc_child_list\"><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#htoc-tetsuya-ishida-1973-2005\">Tetsuya Ishida (1973 &#8211; 2005)<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#htoc-akira-yamaguchi-1969\">Akira Yamaguchi (1969 -)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"htoc-a-single-ray-of-brightness-into-the-20th-century\"><strong>A Single Ray of Brightness (Into the 20th Century)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"htoc-seiki-kuroda-1866-1924\"><strong>Seiki Kuroda (1866 &#8211; 1924)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Disappointing his parents, but thrilling (and occasionally scandalizing) Japanese art lovers, Seiki Kuroda abandoned his study of law, the purpose of a decade long decampment to France, to take up the brush. Moving from Paris to the artist\u2019s colony at Grez-sur-Loing and embracing <em>plein-air<\/em> impressionist painting with gusto, <strong>Kuroda mastered the skills that would in time see him acknowledged in his native land as &#8220;the father of Western-style painting.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his return to Japan, Kuroda\u2019s elegant use of color to suggest light and atmosphere, was considered revolutionary, and he became an immediate inspiration to many younger artists. But the real influence of Kuroda\u2019s unconventional European education was felt in ripples rather than great waves, as across the 20th Century Japanese artists chose not to imitate or conform to western styles, but to selectively learn from and utilize whichever elements of them they felt best served their art. A process, it hardly needs saying, that was eagerly mirrored in the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Seiki Kuroda\u2019s work forms part of the collection of <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artizon.museum\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Artizon Museum<\/a>, <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.polamuseum.or.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Pola Museum<\/a> and the <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiroshima-museum.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Hiroshima Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"htoc-hasui-kawase-1883-1957\"><strong>Hasui Kawase (1883 &#8211; 1957)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Under skies that are dark and velvety and bursting with the silence of snow, or shimmering and glinting with the crystalline joy of a fresh spring day, but always marvelously magically blue, Hasui Kawase picked out the beauty of Japan and recorded it with unparalleled clarity. From the 1920s onwards, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shin-hanga\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\"><em>shin-hanga<\/em><\/a> (New Prints) master\u2019s depictions of scenic and everyday Japan added western style elements of realism to the centuries-old traditions of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukiyo-e\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\"><em>ukiyo-e<\/em><\/a> printmaking, resulting in ozone-packed images that seem genuinely alive, absorbing the viewer as fully as the paper absorbed the ink in their creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hasui Kawase\u2019s prints form part of the collections of the <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.momat.go.jp\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo<\/a> and the <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fujibi.or.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Tokyo Fuji Art Museum<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"htoc-tamako-kataoka-1905-2008\"><strong>Tamako Kataoka (1905 &#8211; 2008)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Emerging from technicolor fields of flowers and jaunty forest groves of green and gold, Tamako Kataoka\u2019s blazing red (or sky blue) <a href=\"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/beginners-guide-hiking-mt-fuji\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Mount Fuji<\/a>(s) are daunting and magical, but at the same time carry an air of cheerful and homey familiarity. Skillful use of this bold but cozy design aesthetic kept Kataoka\u2019s modernist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nihonga\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\"><em>Nihonga<\/em><\/a> (Japanese-style) nature paintings one step away from outright psychedelia, while imbuing them with a vibrant sense of the artist\u2019s joy in art and existence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kataoka\u2019s unique sensibilities and fauvist leanings, developed from her originally gauzy pastel-hued domestic scenes, also gave vivid life to her depictions of people, including many portraits of the ukiyo-e artists who inspired her.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.voyapon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/13170507\/tower-of-the-sun-1133659_1280-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.voyapon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/13170507\/tower-of-the-sun-1133659_1280-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.voyapon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/13170507\/tower-of-the-sun-1133659_1280-1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/s3.voyapon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/13170507\/tower-of-the-sun-1133659_1280-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/s3.voyapon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/13170507\/tower-of-the-sun-1133659_1280-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taro Okamoto&#8217;s Tower of the Sun. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/kojikamei-1660232\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Kojikamei  (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">Kojikamei <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tamako Kataoka\u2019s work forms part of the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, and can be seen in ceramic form at <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artatsite.com\/Tokyo\/details\/Kataoka-Tamako-Ukiyou-Edo-Tsukijishijo-statue-sculpture-Tokyo-Japan-Art-at-Site.html#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Tsukijishijo Station <\/a>and <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/jptca.org\/en\/news\/2016\/5592\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Sunshine City<\/a>, Ikebukuro.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"htoc-myth-of-tomorrow-mid-20th-century\"><strong>Myth of Tomorrow (Mid 20th Century)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"htoc-taro-okamoto-1911-1996\"><strong>Taro Okamoto (1911 &#8211; 1996)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Glowering above the elevated walkway that connects JR Shibuya Station to the Mark City shopping complex, is Taro Okamoto\u2019s sinister but darkly exuberant mural <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/taro-okamoto.or.jp\/en\/asunoshinwa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\"><em>Myth of Tomorrow.<\/em><\/a> Nightmarish clouds and ultra-vivid plasmic tentacles swirl around the painting\u2019s central figure, a starlike human skeleton engulfed in flames, that seems to explode in every direction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okamoto\u2019s monolithic reminder of Japan\u2019s painful birth into the atomic age, is a dark twin (having been conceived of simultaneously) to the unfading art-superstar\u2019s best known work, <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/taiyounotou-expo70.jp\/en\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\"><em>Tower of the Sun<\/em>.<\/a> That gentle giant\u2019s three faces continue to stare out over the site of Osaka\u2019s Expo \u201970, from where they once issued a celebratory invitation to the world, amid the optimism of Japan\u2019s economic miracle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/japanrailtimes.japanrailcafe.com.sg\/web\/article\/interests\/12-okamoto-taro-art-explosion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Public works<\/a> by Okamoto can be seen at the United Nations University Plaza in Shibuya, and Sukiyabashi Park in Ginza as well as other places around Japan. The artist\u2019s former home and studio can also be visited in <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/taro-okamoto.or.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Minami-Aoyama<\/a>, as well as the <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taromuseum.jp\/index_english.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Taro Okamoto Museum of Art<\/a> in Kawasaki.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"htoc-tadanori-yokoo-1936\"><strong>Tadanori Yokoo (1936 -)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking inspiration from everywhere and anywhere, and spreading it generously in his wake, Tadanori Yokoo couldn\u2019t help but absorb Japanese graphic traditions, even as he trod all over them. <strong>In his retina-rattling 1960s posters and prints, the Japanese cultural underground burst spectacularly into the streets, where samurai and kabuki actors shared space with astronauts and art deco nudes, often picked out against a lysergic rising sun.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ultra-prolific artist and designer\u2019s pop-art fingerprints can be found all over modern Japan, and he has designed countless posters, books and record covers, as well as making hundreds of paintings and enjoying a long-lasting collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.pinupmagazine.org\/articles\/interview-tadanori-yokoo-graphic-design-issey-miyake#14\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Issey Miyake.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Beyond the Lines: \u65e5\u672c\u306e\u7f8e\u8853\u4f5c\u5bb6\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba\u3000YOKOO Tadanori \u6a2a\u5c3e\u5fe0\u5247\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KnXXYHCcKIw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A collection of 3,000 of his works can be seen at the <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ytmoca.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a> in Kobe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"htoc-lost-decades-end-of-the-20th-century\"><strong>Lost Decades (End of the 20th Century)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"htoc-tetsuya-ishida-1973-2005\"><strong>Tetsuya Ishida (1973 &#8211; 2005)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Morbidly sluggish and barely able to breathe, the tragically tormented and isolated figures that live through the empty days of Tetsuya Ishida\u2019s heartbreaking surrealist paintings, are victims of the stifling conformity that the artist saw as endemic to the country of his birth. In the heavy gray air of Ishida\u2019s unsettling images of Japan\u2019s <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lost_Decades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">\u201clost decades,\u201d<\/a> men and boys are cruelly merged with machinery, and often seem bewildered, terrified, or \u2014 worst-of-all \u2014 resigned, as powerless to intervene, they watch their own humanity disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Following the artist\u2019s tragic death in 2005, his parents donated 21 of his paintings to the <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/spmoa.shizuoka.shizuoka.jp\/en\/guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art<\/a>, where they form part of the public collection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"htoc-akira-yamaguchi-1969\"><strong>Akira Yamaguchi (1969 -)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Akira Yamaguchi\u2019s era-straddling <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yamato-e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\"><em>Yamato-e<\/em><\/a> imagery makes explicit, in clean and obsessively-detailed fashion, that the world of today is built (and rebuilt) on the foundations of yesterday. Using centuries old techniques, <strong>Yamaguchi presents us with a god\u2019s-eye view of a Japan where old and new inhabit the same physical space, and throngs of people go about their business like the happy inhabitants of a self-made ant farm.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yamaguchi\u2019s cheerfully buzzing scenes of big city life are a reminder that the forever-in-flux streets of Tokyo, sometimes changed unrecognizably over periods of just a year or two, were walked almost half a millennium ago by the residents of Edo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When viewed over cosmic timeframes, those impossibly distant-seeming kimono-clad figures are just on the way home from the shops that we are heading to; so we might as well give them a friendly nod as we pass. When we do, Yamaguchi will be observing from his place amongst the clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Akira Yamaguchi\u2019s works form part of the collection of the <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mori.art.museum\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Mori Art Museum<\/a>, the Museum of Modern Art Shiga, and can be seen in stained glass form at <a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/jptca.org\/en\/publicart549\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" class=\"ek-link\">Nihombashi Station<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, one of the least wasteful ways I have found to waste my time, has been to head&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":102851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2201],"tags":[2065,2154],"class_list":{"0":"post-102753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pop-culture","8":"tag-cultural-activities","9":"tag-culture"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>7 great 20th century Japanese artists<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We explore the artistic and cultural history of 20th century Japanese art. 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