HAZAMA Inosuke

HAZAMA Inosuke (1895–1977) was an artist who, in his youth, earned recognition in the Fusain-kai and in the Nika Association, both organizations of progressive Western-style painters. For a time, he provided guidance for the younger generation at Tokyo University of the Arts. In his later years, he engaged passionately in creating overglaze-enameled ceramics. Along with his creative work, he made efforts to introduce Western art to Japan, editing books of Courbet’s and van Gogh’s works. He was also a skilled coodinator, negotiating with Matisse to produce the first retrospective exhibition (1951) of his work in Japan. Of the works that Hazama collected, Matisse’s Collioure (1905) and Rousseau’s Quai d’Ivry (ca. 1907) are now in the Ishibashi Foundation Collection—examples of Hazama’s deep ties to our museum. This exhibition includes sixty oil paintings, prints, ceramics, and other works by Hazama, reference materials, and Western art in our collection that Hazama was involved in acquiring, to introduce his multifaceted character.

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