Ikuma Arishima

Arishima Ikuma (Japanese有 岛 生 马; actually Arishima Mibuma (有 岛 壬 生 马) * November 26, 1882 in Yokohama, † September 15, 1974 in Kamakura ) was a Japanese painter.

Arishima studied Italian language at the University of Tokyo foreign language. He became a student of Fujishima Takeji and studied painting and sculpture from 1905 in Italy and France. After his return to Japan in 1910 he joined the staff of the magazine Shirakaba, where his first short stories and poems have been published. In 1913 he published his first short story collection Komori no Gotoku (蝙蝠 の 如く).

In 1914 he founded with Ishii Hakutei and Tsuda Seifu the Nikakai exhibition for oil painting. Besides his work as a painter, he was still active as a writer. So he published the novels Nan'ō no Hi (Day in Southern Europe) and Uso no Hate (End of a lie ) and the essay Bijutsu no aki ( autumn of Fine Arts).

Arishimas older brother Arishima Takeo and his younger brother Satomi Ton were writers.

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  • Kamakura City, Kamakura 's Literary Figures - Biography
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  • Literature ( 20th century)
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