Nakamura Tsune

The recorded working language is Japanese. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait, landscape, still life and self-portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Tokyo. Work by Nakamura Tsune is recorded in the collections of Artizon Museum, Menard Art Museum, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yokosuka Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki.

• Name — Nakamura Tsune • Native Name — 中村彝 • Born — 3 July 1887 • Birthplace — Mito City, Ibaraki, Japan • Died — 24 December 1924 • Place of death — Shimo-Ochiai, Shinjuku, Japan • Resting Place — Gion-ji in Mito • Education — * Nagoya Army Cadet School • Research Institute of the White Horse Society • Research Institute of the Pacific Western Painting Society • Notable Works — Girl • Memorials — Shinjuku Nakamura Tsune Atelier Memorial Museum

• Illustration — Girl, awarded third prize at the eighth Bunten exhibition in 1914 Nakamura Tsune was born in 1887 in what is now Mito City, into a family that had served as samurai in the Mito domain. His father died the following year, his mother when he was eleven. He graduated from the 名古屋陸軍地方幼年学校 in 1904 but was forced to abandon his plans for a career as a soldier after contracting tuberculosis. While recuperating, he developed aspirations to become a painter, and in 1906 joined the Research Institute of the White Horse Society, before moving the following year to the Research Institute of the Pacific Western Painting Society. That same year he was baptised. In 1908 he began to socialize with artists including Ogiwara Rokuzan at the 中村屋 Atelier in Shinjuku. Two of his works, Cloudy Morning and Cliffs (now in the Museum of the Imperial Collections) featured in the Third Bunten Exhibition in 1909, the latter receiving a commendation. In 1911 he moved into a studio behind the Nakamura-ya. The following year haemoptysis began. In 1913 Sōma Toshiko, daughter of Aizō and Kokkō, became his model. In 1914, Girl won a prize at the Eighth Bunten Exhibition. Later that year he visited Izu Ōshima. In 1915 his petition for the hand of Toshiko in marriage was opposed by her parents (she went on to marry Rash Behari Bose). In 1916 he built a studio in 下落合 in Shinjuku and exhibited Dr. Tanakadate and Nude at the Eleventh Bunten Exhibition. His Portrait of Vasili Eroshenko was exhibited at the Second Teiten Exhibition in 1920. In December 1924 at the age of 37 he died in his studio in Shimo-Ochiai. His remains were interred at Gion-ji in Mito the following year.

• Illustration — Study for Female Nude, 1908 • Illustration — Self-Portrait, 1909 • Illustration — Portrait of Tago Mitsutoshi, 1912 • Illustration — Girl with a Hat, 1912 • Illustration — Portrait of Mr. I's Father, 1913 • Illustration — Portrait of Tanakadate Aikitsu, 1916 • Illustration — Portrait of Vasili Eroshenko, 1920

Nakamura Tsune is classed in the genre landscape painting. Recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded as a citizen of Japan. Classed in the genre portrait.