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Top Quality Art - Cloud

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Asai Chu

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【Asai Chu】
『Cloud』
（Top Quality Image Edition）

『雲』 （1902）【最高画質版】


【Asai Chū】
(浅井 忠, July 22, 1856 – December 16, 1907) was a Japanese painter, noted for his pioneering work in developing the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th century and early twentieth-century Japanese painting.

Asai was born to an ex-samurai class household in Sakura, in the Kantō region of Japan, where his father had been a retainer of the Sakura Domain. He attended the domain school, where his father was principal, and left home in 1873 to pursue English language studies in Tokyo. However, he became interested in the arts, and enrolled as a pupil of Kunisawa Shinkuro in western oil painting classes. In 1876, he enrolled as one of the first students in the Kobubijutsu Gakkō (the Technical Fine Arts School), where he was able to study under the Italian foreign advisor Antonio Fontanesi, who had been hired by the Meiji government in the late 1870s to introduce western oil painting to Japan.

In 1889, he established the Meiji Bijutsukai (Meiji Art Society), the first group of Western-style painters in Japan, and in 1898, he became a professor of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (present day Tokyo University of the Arts. However, in 1902 he resigned his post and travelled to France, where he spent the next two years refining his techniques in the impressionist school.

On his return to Japan, Asai obtained a position as professor at the Kyoto Kōtō Kōgei Gakkō (present-day Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts of the Kyoto Institute of Technology), and founded the Kansai Bijutsu-in (the Kansai Arts Institute).

Asai taught numerous students who later became famous in the Japanese art world, including Sōtarō Yasui and Ryuzaburo Umehara. He also tutored the noted poet Masaoka Shiki in the techniques of western art, and was the model for a character in Natsume Sōseki's novel Sanshirō.

A number of Asai’s works have been recognized by the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs as Important Cultural Properties.


【浅井 忠】（あさい ちゅう）
1856年7月22日（安政3年6月21日） - 1907年（明治40年）12月16日は、明治期の洋画家。
1898年に東京美術学校（現在の東京芸術大学）の教授となる。その後、1900年からフランスへ西洋画のために留学。
1902年に帰国[3]後、京都高等工芸学校（現在の京都工芸繊維大学）教授となり、個人的にも、1903年に聖護院洋画研究所（1906年に関西美術院）を開いて後進の育成にも努力した。安井曽太郎、梅原龍三郎、石井柏亭、津田青楓、向井寛三郎を輩出しており、画家としてだけではなく教育者としても優れた人物であった。また、正岡子規にも西洋画を教えており、夏目漱石の小説『三四郎』の中に登場する深見画伯のモデルとも言われる。

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July 3rd, 2018