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SUZUKI Kason(1860 - 1919)Biography Signature ("Kason-ga") and seal of SUZUKI Kason |
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Artist – SUZUKI
Kason (Cason) (鈴木華邨), was a dominating painter from Taisho to Meiji
era. In 1874, at the age of 14, he
entered the KIKUCHI Yōsai school and studied
together with Nakajima
ToruHitoshi and other ones. He first mastered the Maruyama
style, but later launched its
own style with elements of the Tosa School and ukiyo-e
from Shijo school. He was particularly excellent in
flowers and birds painting, and also studied traditional
Japanese Shijo painting and printmaking. In 1876-1886 he
worked as a pattern designer for the export company of
Kiryu Kosho Gaisha. In 1877 his gold-lacquer patterns
received an award at the first Domestic Industrial
Exposition. From 1887 through the 1890's he worked with
Hasegawa Takejiro on book illustrations ("kuchi-e",
frontispiz) for the foreign
market. Under his given
name "Sotaro" he illustrated for the newspaper
"Yomiuri Shinbun" and the Journal "New Novel" ("Shin
Shosetsu") and other different newspapers and
magazines. He taught at the
Ishikawa prefectural technical school from 1889 to 1893. He exhibited
several times with the national art exhibitions of "Bunten"
(Imperial Gallery of Fine Arts), and even received
several prizes at these national art exhibitions, and
other international art exhibitions abroad. Later he
became a member of of the Imperial Academy of Fine
Arts.
Personal
life - SUZUKI Kason
(Cason), was born as SUZUKI Natsumura on February 17th
1860 in Edo's Shitaya
Ikenohata Kaya-cho (nowadays Tokiyo). He was named "Shigeo",
but commonly called SoTaro and was eldest son of the
kimono and drape maker SUZUKI Sejiro attached to
the Maeda daimyo of
the Kaga clan.
He was sociable, and devoted to the old way of life in Edo. SUZUKI Kason played several instruments, and was good at the lion dance; and excelled at the game of go.
Complicated by peritonitis, he died of pneumonia at his home in Tokyo Zōshigaya on January 3rd 1919
Aliases - SUZUKI Kason (Cason), Shigeo, SoTaro, Shinobuao
Disciples - Ohara Koson (1877-1945)
He was sociable, and devoted to the old way of life in Edo. SUZUKI Kason played several instruments, and was good at the lion dance; and excelled at the game of go.
Complicated by peritonitis, he died of pneumonia at his home in Tokyo Zōshigaya on January 3rd 1919
Aliases - SUZUKI Kason (Cason), Shigeo, SoTaro, Shinobuao
Disciples - Ohara Koson (1877-1945)
Copyright 2008 ff: Hans P. Boehme