- Names
- 濤川惣助
- NAMIKAWA Sōsuke (index name)
- Namikawa Sōsuke (display name)
- 濤川惣助 (Japanese display name)
- なみかわ そうすけ (transliterated hiragana)
- Date of birth
- 1847
- Birth place
- Kaijō District, Shimōsa Province (current Asahi City, Chiba Prefecture)
- Date of death
- 1910-02-09
- Gender
- Male
- Fields of activity
- Crafts
Biography
- 1997
- Umi o Watatta Meiji no Bijutsu: Saiken! 1893-nen Shikago, Koronbusu Sekai Hakurankai (World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Revisited: 19th Century Japanese Art Shown in Chicago, U.S.A.), Tokyo National Museum, 1997.
- 2002
- Meiji Tennō to Meiji Bijutsu no Meihō: Meiji Tennō Goseitan 50-nen Kinen Ten (Emperor Meiji and Masterpieces from His Era: 150th Anniversary Exhibition of Emperor Meiji's Birth), Meiji Jingu, 2002.
- 2004
- Seiki no Saiten Bankoku Hakurankai no Bijutsu: 2005 nen Nihon Kokusai Hakurankai Kaisai Kinen Ten: Pari, Uīn, Shikago Banpaku ni Miru Tōzai no Meihin (Arts of East and West from World Expositions: Commemorating The 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan: 1855–1900: Paris, Vienna and Chicago), Tokyo National Museum and Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts and Nagoya City Museum, 2004–2005.
- 2009
- Kōshitsu no Meihō: Nihonbi no Hana: Gosokui 20-nen Tokubetsu Ten (Treasures of The Imperial Collections Splendor of Japanese Art), Tokyo National Museum, 2009.
- 2010
- Teishitsu Gigeiin Namikawa Sōsuke no Shippō: Botsugo 100-nen Kinen: Tokubetsuten, Shippo Art Village, 2010.
- 2012
- Naikoku Kangyō Hakurankai: Meiji Bijutsu no Makuake (National Industrial Expositions: The Opening of Meiji Art), The Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan, 2012.
- 2013
- Kōshitsu no Meihin: Kindai Nihon Bijutsu no Sui (Treasures of The Imperial Collections: The Quintessence of Modern Japanese Art), The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2013–2014.
- 2014
- Chōzetsu Gikō! Meiji Kōgei no Iki (Kogei: Superlative Craftsmanship from Meiji Japan), Mitsui Memorial Museum and Sano Art Museum and Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, 2014.
- 2016
- Odoroki no Meiji Kōgei (Meiji Kogei: Amazing Japanese Art), The University Art Museum, Tokyo Univercity of The Arts and Hosomi Museum, Kyoto and Kawagoe City Art Museum, 2016–2017.
- 2017
- Kyōi no Chōzetsu Gikō! Meiji Kōgei kara Gendai Āto e (Amazing Craftsmanship! from Meiji Kogei to Contemporary Art), Mitsui Memorial Museum and Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu and Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum and The Suiboku Museum, Toyama and Abeno Harukas Art Museum, 2017–2019.
- 2017
- Polished to Perfection: Japanese Cloisonné from The Collection of Donald K. Gerber and Sueann E. Sherry, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017–2018.
- 2018
- Meiji 150-nen Ten: Meiji no Nihonga to Kōgei (The 150th Anniversary of The Meiji Period: Making and Designing Meiji Arts and Crafts), The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2018.
- 2019
- Seven Treasures A Trove of Japanese Cloisonné, Museum Angewandte Kunst, 2019.
- 2021
- Watanabe Seitei: Ōbei o Miryō shita Kachō-ga (Watanabe Seitei), The University Art Museum, Tokyo Univercity of The Arts and Okazaki Mindscape Museum and Sano Art Museum, 2021.
- 2022
- Nihon no Bijutsu o Himotoku: Kōshitsu, Bi no Tamatebako: Tokubetsu Ten (Themes in Japanese Art from The Imperial Collection: Special Exhibition), The University Art Museum, Tokyo Univercity of The Arts, 2022.
- 2022
- Kirameku Kyō no Meiji Bijutsu: Sekai ga Odoroita Teishitsu Gigeiin no Kamiwaza: Tokubetsu Ten (Ornate Meiji Period Art: Shining Kyoto Artists of The Imperial Court: Special Exhibition), Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, 2022.
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
- Kyoto National Museum
- Shippo Art Village, Ama City, Aichi Prefecture
- Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum, Kyoto
- Tokyo National Museum
- The Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan, Tokyo
- The University Art Museum, Tokyo Univercity of The Arts
- Seikado Bunko Art Museum, Tokyo
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 1979
- Suzuki Norio, Sakakibara Satoru. Nihon no Shippō. Kyoto: Maria Shobō, 1979.
- 1993
- Suzuki Norio. Shippō. Nihon no Bijutsu, 322 (March 1993).
- 1994
- Impey, Oliver, Malcom Fairley [et al.] (eds.). Meiji no Takara: Treasures of Imperial Japan, Vol. III. The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese art. London: Kibo Foundation, 1994.
- 1996
- Ōkuma Toshiyuki. “An Aspect of Japanese Art History in the Meiji Period: Paris International Exposition of 1900 and the Imperial Household and the Ministry of Imperial Household”. Annual report of Sannomaru Shozokan, No. 1 (March 1996): 35-52.
- 1996
- Nagoya City Museum (ed.). Meijiki Hakurankai Shuppin Shippōkō Sōran: Meijiki Kangyō Hakurankai ni kansuru Chōsa Kenkyū. Nagoyashi Hakubutsukan Chōsa Kenkyū Hōkoku, Vol. 3. Nagoya: Nagoya City Museum, 1996.
- 2002
- Ōkuma Toshiyuki. “Gete, Yushutsuhin, Goyōhin: Meiji Kōgei no Mittsu no Kao” in Emperor Meiji and Masterpieces from His Era : 150th Anniversary Exhibition of Emperor Meiji's Birth. Kaname Kuniharu, Ema Jun'ichirō [et al.](eds.). [exh. cat.], Tokyo: Meiji Jingu, 2002 (Venue: Meiji Jingu Bunkakan).
- 2004
- Tokyo National Museum [et al.] (eds.). Arts of East and West from World Expositions: Commemorating the 2005 World Exposition, Aichi, Japan: 1855-1900: Paris, Vienna and Chicago. [exh. cat.], [Tokyo]: NHK, NHK Promotions, Nikkei, 2004 (Venues: Tokyo National Museum and Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts and Nagoya City Museum).
- 2006
- Murata Masayuki. Japanese Crafts of the Late Edo and Meiji Periods: Masterpieces of Skill and Beauty. Kyoto: Tankosha, 2006.
- 2009
- Tokyo National Museum [et al.] (eds.). Treasures of the Imperial Collections Splendor of Japanese Art. 2 vols. [exh. cat.], Tokyo: NHK, NHK Promotions, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Nikkei, 2009 (Venue: Tokyo National Museum).
- 2010
- Okamoto Takashi. “On the Panel with Scene of Deep Forest in the Moonlight, by Namikawa Sosuke”. Annual Report of Sannomaru Shozokan, No. 15 (March 2010): 69-76.
- 2010
- Teishitsu Gigeiin Namikawa Sōsuke no Shippō: Botsugo 100-nen Kinen: Tokubetsuten. [exh. cat.], Ama (Aichi Prefecture): Shippo Art Village, 2010 (Venue: Shippo Art Village).
- 2012
- The Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan (ed.) National Industrial Expositions: the Opening of Meiji Art. [exh. cat.], Tokyo: The Imperial Household Agency, 2012 (Venue: The Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan).
- 2013
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, the Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan, and Nikkei (eds.). Treasures of the Imperial Collections: the Quintessence of Modern Japanese Art. [exh. cat.], Tokyo: Nikkei, 2013 (Venue: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto).
- 2017
- Murata Masayuki. Meiji Kōgei Nyūmon: Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Bijutsukan (Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum) Murata Masayuki Korekushon (Collection). Tokyo: Houmando, 2017.
- 2018
- Hirai Yoshinobu, Daichō Tomohiro (eds.). The 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Period: Making and Designing Meiji Arts and Crafts. [exh. cat.], Kyoto: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2018 (Venue: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto).
- 2021
- The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts (ed.). Watanabe Seitei: Ōbei o Miryō shita Kachōga. [exh. cat.], [Tokyo]: Shogakukan, 2021 (Venues: The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts and Okazaki City Museum and Sano Art Museum).
- 2022
- Kyoto City Museum of Art (Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art) (ed.). Ornate Meiji Period Art: Shining Kyoto Artists of the Imperial Court: Special Exhibition. [exh. cat.], Kyoto: Kyoto City Museum of Art (Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art), 2022 (Venue: Kyoto City Museum of Art (Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art)).
Wikipedia
Namikawa Sōsuke (1847–1910) was a Japanese cloisonné artist, known for innovations that developed cloisonné enamel into an artistic medium sharing many features with paintings. He and Namikawa Yasuyuki (no relation) were the most famous cloisonné artists of the 1890 to 1910 period, known as the \"golden age\" of Japanese enamels. Around 1880 he set up and ran the Tokyo branch of the Nagoya Cloisonné Company. He exhibited his artworks at national and international expositions, where he took an organising role. He was recognised as an Imperial Household Artist and created art works for imperial residences. He sometimes signed his works with the character sakigake (pioneer).
- 2023-12-01