Narashige Koide

Narashige Koide studied at Tokyo University of the Arts. Training under Kanzan Shimomura is recorded. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Japan. Work by Narashige Koide is recorded in the collections of Artizon Museum and Ohara Museum of Art.

• Name — Narashige Koide • Born — 13 October 1887 • Birthplace — Osaka, Japan • Died — 13 February 1931 • Place of death — Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan • Field — Painter • Movement — Yōga

Koide was born in what is now the Shinsaibashi area of Chūō-ku 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 yōga-style portrait group titled "N-Family" into the 1919 6th Nikakai (Second Division Society) Exhibition, where he won the Chōgyū 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 1921–1922, he travelled to France, and established his atelier in Osaka in 1924. (This studio is now preserved at the Ashiya City Art Museum). In his later years, Koide was especially known for his nudes. He died in Ashiya, Hyōgo in 1931.

• N no kazoku, 1919, Ohara Art Museum, National Important Cultural Property • Boy with a Lamp, 1923, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan • Nude with white cloth, 1929, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan • Nude on a bed, 1930, Ohara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

• Title — N-Family • Other Language 1 — Japanese • Other Title 1 — Nの家族 • Artist — Narashige Koide • Year — 1919 • Type — Oil painting • Height Metric — 78.0 • Width Metric — 90.5 • Metric Unit — cm • Imperial Unit — in • City — Kurashiki, Okayama • Museum — Ohara Art Museum • Italic Title — no

Narashige Koide is recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded as a citizen of Japan. Classed in the genre portrait.