Shunyo-kai art society

Shunyo-kai art society (Japanese: 春陽会, romanized: Shun'yōkai, lit. 'Spring Sun Society'),[1] is a Japanese art society founded in 1922 by the Western-style (yōga) artists from the painting department of Nihon Bijutsuin (English: Japan Visual Arts Academy).[2] As of 2021, they have some 200 members. They annually hold a large scale exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.[3]

History

The Shunyo-kai art society started in 1922, after a group of Nihon Bijutsuin art students rebelled against the lessons and wanted to focus on the Western-style (yōga).[4] It emerged as the third yōga art society, and competed against the Teikoku Bijutsuin (the Imperial Fine Arts Academy), and the Nika Association.[4] The founding group members from Nihon Bijutsuin include Gen’ichirō Adachi, Noboru Hasegawa, Yamamoto Kanae, Misai Kosugi, Hakuyō Kurata, Morita Tsunetomo, and Ryūzaburō Umehara;[4] and the founding guest members include Ishii Tsuruzō, Keishi Imazeki, Ryūsei Kishida, Shōhachi Kimura, Sadao Tsubaki, Kazumasa Nakagawa, Shōzō Yamazaki, and Tetsugorō Yorozu.[4]

See also

• List of Yōga painters
• Nihonga, a traditional Japanese art movement

References

1. Fogel, Joshua A. (2012). Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art. University of California Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-520-28984-0.
2. Far East Year Book. Far East Year Book, Incorporated. 1941. p. 162.
3. Morishita, Masaaki (2016-03-23). The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan. Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-317-03417-9.
4. "Artists of Shunyo-kai: Celebrating Its 100th Anniversary". Tokyo Station. Retrieved 2023-09-20.