Yumeji Takehisa




In this Japanese name, the family name is Takehisa.



Yumeji Takehisa




Stone monument at his birthplace




Takehisa works (repro) in a gallery in Kurashiki


Yumeji Takehisa (竹久 夢二, Takehisa Yumeji, September 16, 1884 – September 1, 1934) was a Japanese poet and painter. He also painted in the Nihonga style.



Biography


He was born in Oku (now Setouchi), Okayama, Japan. His childhood home has been preserved and opened to visitors. He is buried in Zōshigaya Cemetery in the Ikebukuro area of Tokyo. At an earlier stage in his life he intended to become a poet, but knowing he could not make a living as a poet, he began drawing pictures.


He never studied drawing in any painting school nor under any teacher formally. He hated the concept of the "artist", feeling they were rather pretentious which unsurprisingly upset many of the artists of his time, leading to poor reviews from the so-called elite. Outside of the art circles, Takehisa's works acquired great popularity among ordinary people and to this day have many ardent fans in Japan and abroad.


Takehisa died in 1934 at the age of 49.






  • Postcard by Takehisa Yumeji, 1912







  • Postcard by Takehisa Yumeji, 1910







  • Postcard by Takehisa Yumeji, 1913







  • Postcard by Takehisa Yumeji, 1930s







  • Postcard by Takehisa Yumeji, 1930s







  • Yayoi-Takehisa Yumeji Bijutsukan, Tokyo






See also



  • Yumeji Art Museum

  • Jun'ichi Nakahara

  • Katsuji Matsumoto



External links




  • Media related to Yumeji Takehisa at Wikimedia Commons


  • Yumeji Art Museum (夢二郷土美術館) in Okayama, Japan


  • Takehisa Yumeji Museum (竹久夢二美術館) in Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese)


  • Takehisa Yumeji Ikaho Kinenkan (竹久夢二伊香保記念館) in Gunma, Japan (in Japanese)


  • Kanazawa Yuwaku Yumejikan Museum (金沢湯涌夢二館) in Kanazawa, Japan


  • Works by or about Yumeji Takehisa at Internet Archive


  • Works by Yumeji Takehisa at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
















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