The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-06
A JAPANESE ARTIST HERB
Began to Take Orders at 10, and at Is
Got Governments First Prize.

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Shimada Ssl1ko the noted japanese.
artist IS in Callfornia and at present
the guest Of Henry p Bowie at his
residence in san Mateo He is en- route
TO Europe ana expects TO be away from
MS native land for three years. In the
itinerary six months have been aIIot-
Tea 60 CahIornla, the same time to BOs-
ton and. New York, and the remaining
Two years 70 all parts of Europe, Wshere
ne can see tae work or the old ana the
new masters
The way by which this interesting
man has attained the fame which has
gone beyond Japan is much the way
Jhat genius has travelled for all time
and IN all countries He has had 10
struggle from the time ne was a mere
lad untllt comparatively recent years
when 4refnunerat as WeE as honor
was his reward. Sekko as now s. years
OF age, we'll above the average height
o. ms eouTtTymen and distinctly good
looking
SeiSko comes rightfuHy- BY his gifts
his father was Shin1ada. Sekkoku. and
ne was 2 SemuTat- of Itchizen and be-
came QEle of the noted artists of his
time, having studied ia turn with IA
zan. Ohio Goshun and Ganku Sekko
was taught by his father from the time
he was years old. When he was 10
years of age he had orders for a great
variety of work and from u to Is he
-fess9 NAt-eAts JAA IA fAt1AlllE AlLuELLdL
Tor the newspapers, aifeo which was
considered extraordinary for a chiid.
At is he exhibited his first work in
Toxic at the government exhibition ana
received honors. His subject was an
elephant. during the following three
years Sel0SO studied with AIurata, Kok-
Su and Ikeda Unsho, covering a variety
of work At this time his father died
and he was obliged to return to news
paper Illustration. He soon worked
Of f-nf Frar- a
years studying landscape, during which
time he travelled an over Japan. study
ing the types OF peasantrV and court
ceremonials. Figure painting and ma
rlnes next engaged his attention The
things in the sea as we'll as the sea it,
self were faithfully studied and to set
the very life of the fish Se6ko has gone
down in a diving bell
Al his faithful study has told Tor
there is not man in the empire OF the
fish as he does. An acknowledgment
OF this is found in the fact that some
of. Sekko's paintings are in the royal
collections. Two were bought by the
emperor and empress last year. and
-one of the. pictures at the UenO exhibi-
ton was secured by the ROYAL house
hold He had also the unusual honor
of painting. before his Imperial high
ness, the. crown prince taking as his
subjects sOn that occasion first a. war
rior then a badger.
By the time Sekko was IS years old
he had fifteen medals and diplomas.
Besides carving out. his career, this
artist. has been active in fJirthering art
of all kinds and has organized notable
societies Heis a member Of the Japan
Society of Art and the japan Art asso-
ciatiOn a
All Of Sekko' best work IS done on
the finest white silk, mounted on Whise
and bordered in gold. AS suggested by
his subjects his work is delicate. subtle.
Poetic or heroic. Some pieces are done
with microscopic nicely and others are
in strong, simple lines