Hitherto the life and work of KOIDE Narashige's early days have been only vaguely known. But the present author recently found some paintings and letters of his early days, and subsequenlty wrote an article in Vol. 223, the Bijutsu Kenkyu (July, 1962) on KOIDE's college days. In the present paper, the author discusses KOIDE's life and artistic tendency in the period from 1914 when he finished the Tokyo Art School, to 1911 when he was to make a name in the world of painting by presenting “Family Portrait of N”. After graduation from the Art School, KOIDE returned to Osaka, his native place. But since the center of artistic activities was Tokyo, Osaka, which had the hornour of being Japan's most important, traditional commercial town, made oil painters look alien. KOIDE's ancestors had been famous pharmacists originating in the Edo Period; his home lacked on understanding of the new art of oil painting. KOIDE, in such circumstances where there was little interest in art, found it dfficult, but he continued to work alone. Although from around 1912 such new western artistic movements as Fauvism, Post-impressionism and Cubism were introduced and strongly influenced young Japanese painters, KOIDE's works of this stage do not show this kind of influence but remain mere representations of natural things, and the direction of his work was not yet determined. The painting of the evening scenery of the Dōton-bori, one of the cobweb-like canals in the city, a familiar scene to him, is a representative work of the stage just after finishing Art School. (Pl. I.) This picture, embodying a sensibility to his environment, is an affectionate work incorporating the intimate feeling of a commoner's life, though a peculiar expression of his own has not yet been attained. But from this stage he began to struggle to find his own expression and to distill his style, the accomplishment of which was to take a long time. Not long after, figure and still life entered his repertory in addition to landscape. For a while after 1919 or so, the influence of Cézanne suddenly appears in his work. While the pursuit of solid expression characteristic of Cézanne raised the spirit of form in KOIDE, his work took the first step forward into the world of intellectual, modernistic form, leaving behind him simple reproduction of nature. Its eariest witness is the “Family Portrait of N” which happened to bring him fame, and it was also this work that decided his direction as a painter.