- Names
- 棟方志功
- MUNAKATA Shikō (index name)
- Munakata Shikō (display name)
- 棟方志功 (Japanese display name)
- むなかた しこう (transliterated hiragana)
- Date of birth
- 1903-09-05
- Birth place
- Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture
- Date of death
- 1975-09-13
- Death place
- Suginami-ku, Tokyo
- Gender
- Male
- Fields of activity
- Painting
- Printmaking
- 2023
- Seitan 120-nen Munakata Shikō ten: Mēkingu obu Munakata (The Making of Munakata Shiko: Celebrating the 120th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth), The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2023.
- 2019
- Tokyo Bunkazai Kenkyūjo (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties). “Munakata Shikō.” Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan Shosai Bukkosha Kiji. Last modified 2019-06-06. https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/9584.html
日本美術年鑑 / Year Book of Japanese Art
「棟方志功」『日本美術年鑑』昭和51年版(310-319頁)木版画家で文化勲章受賞者、棟方志功は、9月13日午前10時5分、肝臓ガンのため東京都杉並区の自宅で死去した。享年72歳。棟方志功は、明治36年(1903)、青森市の刃物鍛冶屋の15人兄弟のうちの3男に生まれ、青森市立長嶋尋常小学校を卒業後、給仕の職など働きながら画家を志して大正13年(1924)上京、独学で絵を学んだ。白日会展、帝展などに出品、版画制作へむかったのは、大正14年、川上澄生の版画「初...
Wikipedia
Shikō Munakata (棟方 志功, Munakata Shikō, September 5, 1903 – September 13, 1975) was a woodblock printmaker active in Shōwa period Japan. He is associated with the sōsaku-hanga movement and the mingei (folk art) movement. Munakata was awarded the \"Prize of Excellence\" at the Second International Print Exhibition in Lugano, Switzerland in 1952, and first prize at the São Paulo Bienal Exhibition in Brazil in 1955, followed by Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale in 1956, and the Order of Culture, the highest honor in the arts by the Japanese government in 1970.
- 2024-10-31