Hi, ladies!!
Kiyoko Endo started to live together with writer Homei Iwano in Okubo, Tokyo, in 1909, at the age of 27. Their cohabitation drew attention among the media, as Yorozu choho carried an interesting article titled “Two strange persons started to cohabit; which will win, body or soul? (rei ga katsuka niku ga katsuka) ”While Iwano had openly asserted the hanju-shugi, an instinctive behavior policy, Endo considered love excessively sacred.
On the day, Endo began a diary, which was later published as Aino soto, A love struggle. She wrote a lot of details of their daily life in it, with her dissatisfaction, anger and suffering in their love-hate relationship. On the other hand, against her book, Iwano also published Seifuku hiseifuku, A conqueror and a conquered. Both of them frankly depicted what happened between the unusual couple.
…To be continued. See you later!
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Hello, Cherry and ladies.
It started to rain this morning. How are you doing?
I'm Shoen Uemura. I taught painting thirty or forty dicsciples in the Taisho period when I was in my late 40s.
I remembered one girl named Kitazawa Eigetsu,then 15, among the students who studied a Japanese painting as one of their hobbies, not aiming at professionals.
I noticed, however, Kitazawa had a strong motivation to become a professional artist as a means of financial independence. It was not so rare for a woman to become a painter, compared with the age of the early Meiji period.
It seemed that she wanted me to teach her more strictly and appropriately.
In my belief, the way for leading to a professional artist was so challenging and strict that self-training was more important than relying on a teacher. I did treat her the same way as others such as daughters and married women from wealthy families.
After ten years of training under me, I had a chance to introduce Eigetsu another teacher, Bakusen Tuchida, who was a lucky adventurer who waslauching new artistic projects.
I’d like to tell you that Eigetsu Kitazawa realized her dream to become a professional painter. She died at the age of 82, in 1990.
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