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Nishimura Goun 西村五雲


Source: Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975, Helen Merritt, University of Hawaii Press, 1992, p. 110 and miscellaneous sources.
Nishimura Goun was born, and lived, in Kyoto and was initially the pupil of Kishi Chikudo (1826-1897) before studying under Takeuchi Seihō (1864-1942). He showed at the Nihon Bijutsu Kyokai (Japan Art Association) and then with the Zenkoku Kaiga Kyoshinkai (National Competitive Painting Exhibition). He was a prize winner at the first Bunten* in 1907 and was a member and frequent juror of the Teiten*. He was also a member of the Imperial Art Academy and a professor at various Kyoto Art schools. His subjects included flowers, fish (see silk scroll below), animals, birds and bunraku puppets. He was a Kyoto School painter and considered to be heir to Seiho in style.  Primarily a painter, woodblocks were a minor part of his oeuvre.  Merritt notes that his prints were carved by Yamagishi Kazue (c. 1893-1966) and printed by Nishimura Kumakichi who were responsible carving and printing the Supplements of the Complete Works of Chikamatsu Manzaemon.
 

  

 

 

  

Kanoh HOHGAI

 Gaho HASHIMOTO

Bairei KONO

Keinen IMAO

Hobun KIKUCHI

Seiho TAKEUCHI

Taikan YOKOYAMA

Shunkyo YAMAMOTO

Gyokudo KAWAI

Kanzan SHIMOMURA

Shunso HISHIDA

 
 

Shoen UEMURA

Nishimura GOUN

Hyakusui HIRAFUKU

 Kiyokata KABURAKI

Kansetsu HASHIMOTO

Seison MAEDA

Shinsui  ITO

Kayo YAMAGUCHI

Kaii HIGASHIYAMA

Shoko UEMURA

 

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