International studio (53.1914)

Studio- Talk

hira-makiye, or flat lacquering, and taka-makiye,
high or raised lacquering, and of preparing lacquer
of different colours. As in all other cases, they are
encouraged to devise and produce something
original, and they are allowed the utmost freedom
in the execution of their diploma work. To widen
their knowledge of art and ennoble their thoughts,
certain general studies are prescribed, such as
foreign languages, the history of manners and
customs, and of Oriental and Occidental art,
aesthetics and western archaeology. In teaching some
of these subjects photographs and lantern slides and
the Imperial Household Museum, which is in close
proximity to the school, are freely made use of
in order that real and accurate knowledge may be
acquired. _


The Imperial School has enlisted the services of
the best artists available. On its staff of instructors
there are five Court artists. Two of them,

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Takamura Koun, professor of modelling, and
Takenouchi Hisakazu, professor of wood, ivory
and decorative carving, have been teaching there
for twenty-five years, that is from the beginning of

the school. Also Prof. Kojima of the First
Higher School has been teaching instrumental
drawing at the art school ever since its foundation.
At the celebration of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the school, to which










reference was made at the commence-
ment of these notes, a suitable recogni-
tion was made of the long and valuable
services rendered by the three teachers
just mentioned.
Upon that occasion a bronze bust of
the late Hashimoto Gaho and another
of the late Kawabata Gyokusho, both
of whom had taught at the school and
in their capacity of teachers and artists
contributed much towards the progress
of Japanese painting, were presented to
the school by their followers and now
occupy positions in the peaceful shade
of the trees in the school garden, where
homage is paid to them by many of
their monjin. By the efforts of these
teachers and those of Kano Hogai,
Hishida Shunso, and Okakura Kakuzo,
all of whom are now dead and gone, as
well as of those living artists now con-
nected with the institution, which attracts
young artists from all over the empire,
the Imperial School of Art, Tokyo,
occupies a pre-eminent position in the

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art world of Japan.

( City and Guilds of London Institute, Finsbury)

Harada Jiro.