Yoshio Markino: Chronology of His Life and Work

dited and adapted by William S. Rodner, 1886 based on a translation by Eriko Tomizawa-Kay of the Becomes assistant teacher at the Haruki Primary School Echronology prepared by Toyota City Museum of Lo- where his brother, Toshitarō, was employed, and moves in cal History (Toyota Kyōdo Shiryōkan), published in Miyuki with him. Studies Western-style sketching techniques from Naruse, ed. Makino Yoshio ten (Exhibition of Yoshio Marki- Kanekiyo Nozaki and Manji Mizuno; also studies English no), Toyota City Museum of Art, 2008. with Masatane Ogawa; and Chinese classics with Unshō Satō in . (Note: Following the custom Yoshio Markino preferred for himself, Japanese names in this chronology are given in 1887 Western order, given name followed by surname. In end- In October, begins work as an assistant at Nagoya Design notes and bibliography, Japanese custom, surname fi rst, is Company. In November, enters the Nagoya Eiwa School adhered to.) (present-day Nagoya Gakuin) with a scholarship that the American Missionary Frederick Klein established. In 1869 December, is baptized. Born December 25, in the village of Komoro (part of present- day Toyota City, ), the second son of Toshi- 1889 moto and Katsu Makino. His childhood name was Heijirō. Rejected for military service because of failing a physical Has an elder sister named Yoshi (later known as Kyō) and examination. elder brother Toshitarō. His father worked as an educator who traveled widely in Japan, and later helped establish the Koromo Primary School, where he also taught. 1890 Borrows money from his sister, Kyō Fujishima, and travels to 1875 Yokohama to stay with Maki Hotta, a cousin on his father’s In July, enters Koromo School, the local primary school side. In summer, graduates from Nagoya Eiwa School. founded by his father. 1893 1880 At the age of 24, obtains a student visa for study in the Unit- Begins studying bunjinga (literati painting) with his brother ed States in June, and the following month arrives in San Toshitarō under the tutelage of the local painter Chikkō Francisco. Through a letter of introduction from Shigetaka Tamegai. Shiga to the Consul in San Francisco, he is assisted by Utsujirō Suzuki, who came from same region of Japan as 1882 him. Is encouraged by Suzuki to pursue a career as an artist, In July, his mother dies. and in November enters Hopkins Art School.

1883 1894 In October, graduates from Koromo School. While abroad, receives news from Japan that his father has died. 1884 In August, begins working as an assistant teacher at Ōtani 1895 School in Chita-gun, but resigns after a few months. In the In April, the writer and poet Yonejirō Noguchi visits Marki- autumn, adopted into the Isogai family, relatives from a near- no. Sends his oil painting depicting a beach in San Francisco by village, and his given name is changed to Yoshio. Works at to his brother, Toshitarō. Around this time, he masters Hagiwara primary school in the area, but shortly afterwards the so-called “silk veil” technique, which allows him to con- leaves his adopted family, and returns to live with his father vey the mood of fog and other atmospheric eff ects in San who is now teaching at Kutsukage School (Toyoaki City). Francisco.

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1897 1905 In June, he receives a letter of introduction to Tadamasa In September, nominated as a judge for the Great Art Expo- Hayashi, the prominent Paris-based dealer in Japanese art, sition in Venice representing the British Art Association, from a senior Naval offi cer, Shōzō Sakurai. In August, de- and also attends the annual meeting of the Swiss Art Asso- parts for New York and meets the Western-style painter Kat- ciation. Also receives membership as a research student of sumi Miyake at the Japan Assembly Hall. In November, ar- national museums, on the recommendation of M. H. Spiel- rives in Paris from America but fails to meet Hayashi, who mann, the editor of The Magazine of Art. had already left for Japan. In December, decides to come to London on the recommendation of Umatarō Ide, a friend 1906 from art school. Works as an illustrator for W. J. Loftie’s The Colour of London (until January 1907). 1898 Begins working at the Japanese Naval Inspector’s Offi ce in 1907 London and also starts his study of art in South Kensing- The Colour of London published May 8, 1907, and at the same ton. In March, he decides to move to the Goldsmiths’ Tech- time he holds an exhibition of his original paintings at Clif- nical and Recreative Institute (later renamed Goldsmiths’ ford Gallery in Haymarket. From May to June, however, he is College). hospitalized in the West London Hospital while recovering from an operation related to gastrointestinal problems. In 1900 August, stays in Paris, in advance of the publication of The Transfers to the London Central School of Art and Craft. Colour of Paris, until June 1908. Meets Rodin at the home of Sees a performance in London of a modern Kabuki play by Leon Bénédite, the director of Luxembourg Art Museum. the theater troupe headed by Otojirō Kawakami. Bushō Hara leaves for Japan in October.

1901 1908 The Naval Inspector’s Offi ce closes and Markino is paid £30 In , from October 1908 to May 1909, to do the illustra- as severance pay to cover his return trip to Japan, but he de- tions for The Colour of Rome. The Colour of Paris is published cides not to return home. In October, some of his works and by Chatto & Windus. a short biography are published in the arts magazine Studio. In December, meets the former Prime Minister Itō at the 1909 Alexandria Hotel in London. Visits Paris in May while on the way back to London in June. The Colour of Rome published by Chatto & Windus. From 1902 September to December, he stays in Oxford to research a In February, reunited with Katsumi Miyake at the Tate Gal- new publication, Oxford From Within. lery. In October, publishes Japanese Childrens’ Stories with the publisher Grant Richards. His illustrations appear in the 1910 magazine King. In November he starts living with Noguchi. A Japanese Artist in London published by Chatto & Windus. From May to October, guides Spielmann and Louis Haydon, 1903 and others around the Japan–British Exhibition in Shep- A series of his art and writings are published in the English herd’s Bush, London. His name appears in Who’s Who. Ox- Illustrated Magazine. Noguchi’s Anthology of English poet- ford From Within published by Chatto & Windus. From July ry, From the Eastern Sea, which Markino designed and illus- to October, stays in Italy with the author Olave Potter and trated, is published privately. In March, Unicorn Press off ers Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Sladen (author of Queer Things about to publish From Tōkaidō, and Markino is again engaged as Japan), so as to publish A Little Pilgrimage in Italy. The liter- illustrator and designer. In August, his illustrations and auto- ary journal English Review invites him to write a series of biography are published in The Magazine of Art. In Decem- essays. Was traveling at this time with the suff ragette ber, a Japanese play The Darling of Gods (Kamigami no chōji) for a lecture-tour regarding women’s is performed at His Majesty’s Theatre, where he advises on voting rights. Invited to author a signed weekly column in the costume designs and theater sets, and illustrates the the- the Evening News. atre program. 1911 1904 Invited to author a singed column in Saturday edition of In November, the Western-style painter Bushō Hara moves Daily News. Publishes his painting of Windsor Castle on the into Markino’s lodgings (until May 1905). special occasion of Queen Mary’s Coronation in the The

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