Narashige Koide

Narashige Koide was a Japanese painter and illustrator, noted for his work in pioneering the Hanshinkan Modernism trend in yga portraiture and nude painting in early 20th century Japanese painting.

Koide was born in what is now the Shinsaibashi area of Chku Osaka. Interested in art from childhood, he studied Nihonga in elementary and middle school. In 1907, he applied to the western arts department of Tokyo School of Fine Art, but failed his entrance examinations, and was accepted into the Nihonga department instead. Although he was able to study under famed Nihonga painter Shimomura Kanzan, he was still drawn to oil painting. After graduating in 1914 he returned to Osaka and continued to paint and entered a ygastyle portrait group titled NFamily into the 1919 6th Nikakai Exhibition, where he won the Chgy Prize. This painting is now recognized by the Agency of Cultural Affairs of the Japanese government as an Important Cultural Properties of Japan. In the Nikakai exhibition of 1920 his portrait of the Young Girl Omme received the Nika Prize. He received numerous commissions following these successes, and experimented with a variety of media, including painting on glass. From 192

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