JO199000002000_911200_001T, 1991/12/00撮影, Public Domain

Sunny Day

Title	Sunny Day
Artist	黒田清輝　KURODA Seiki
Date	1897
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	50.2×61.0
Classification	Paintings
Accession Number	JO199000002000
Summary	After returning to Japan, Kuroda introduced a style known as the “plein-air” school, which combined academic realism with the bright colors of Impressionism. This work was painted during the period of debate between the kyu-ha, the old school of Meiji-Period painters who advocated traditional Western-style painting, and the shim-pa, the new school, led by Kuroda. Kuroda and his fellow artists gradually came to establish the mainstream of Western-style painting in the late Meiji period, and Kuroda became an instructor in the Western Painting Department of the newly established Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1896 (Meiji 29). This picture of a quiet village in the cold season, bathed in gentle sunlight, is painted in the new style, with the red of the laundry hanging near the center of the composition standing out effectively against the predominantly green and blue tones of the scene.

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Native place	Kagoshima, JPN
Birth	1866
Dead place	Tokyo, JPN
Died	1924
Biography	Kuroda was born in Kagoshima. In 1872, he was adopted by his uncle Kuroda Kiyotsune, who later became a viscount, and moved to Tokyo. He went to France in 1884 to study law, but while there studied painting with Raphaël Collin and then entered the Académie Colarossi. With the encouragement of friends, he decided to devote himself to painting. “Reading” and “Morning Toilette” were accepted at the Salon. After returning to Japan in 1894, he opened a painting school, the Tenshin-dojo, with Kume Keiichiro. Two years later, he organized the Hakuba-kai and became a teacher in the new Western-style painting section at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. In 1900, he went back to France for a year to study methods of art education. While there, he won the silver prize for “Intellect, Sense, and Emotion” at the Paris International Exposition. He was appointed a judge for the Bunten exhibition held in 1907. In 1910, he was the first Western-style painter appointed as an Artist to the Imperial Household. He was elected to the House of Peers in 1920, and in 1922 he became head of the Imperial Art Institute. He died in Tokyo.

Sunny Day

KURODA Seiki