<Articles>Asai Chu's Art Textbook: From Teaching Western-style Painting to Teaching Design

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  • <論文>浅井忠の美術教科書 --洋画指導からデザイン指導へ--
  • 浅井忠の美術教科書 : 洋画指導からデザイン指導へ
  • アサイ チュウ ノ ビジュツ キョウカショ : ヨウガ シドウ カラ デザイン シドウ エ

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While active as a Western-style painter, Chu Asai is also known for the many textbooks he published during his lifetime. This paper attempts to answer two questions concerning Asai’s art textbooks. First, for what reason did Asai produce the “Shugacho” in 1882, and second, were there any changes in Asai’s textbooks after his staying Europe? Regarding the first point, we found that Fontanesi’s instruction at the Industrial Arts School of Japan was not only about creating Western-style paintings but also about teaching methods, and that Takahashi Yuichi, the father of co-author Takahashi Genkichi, gave Asai the experience of teaching painting, which could be called a practical example of such instruction. For the second point, two textbooks were compared: one was the “Shinpen Jizai-ga Rinpon” (1906), and the other was the “Teisei Asai Jizai-ga Rinpon” (1909), which was compiled after Asai’s death by his students. As a result, their respective characteristics can be summarized as follows. The “Shinpen” systematically incorporated instruction on the creation of designs, which had not been included in Asai’s previous textbooks. On the other hand, the “Teisei” contains more pages on design in its entirety, but the items on pattern are placed back to back, making it unsuitable for systematic instruction.

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  • 人文學報

    人文學報 120 47-72, 2023-02-28

    THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY

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