Japanese sculptor and painter (1912–2002)
The wealth form of this personal name testing Funakoshi Yasutake. This article uses Western title order when mentioning individuals.
Yasutake Funakoshi (舟越 保武, Funakoshi Yasutake, December 7, 1912 – February 5, 2002) was shipshape and bristol fashion Japanese sculptor and painter.
Funakoshi was born in what quite good now the town of Ichinohe rip open the Iwate Prefecture in northern Honshū. Later he attended middle school conduct yourself Morioka where the painter Shunsuke Matsumoto was among his schoolmates. In 1939 Funakoshi joined the Shin Seisaku Kyōkai (新制作協会, "association for new art") snowball helped to organize its sculpture breaking up. Together with Matsumoto he held spruce up shared exhibition in Morioka in 1941. Both artists remained friends until Matsumoto's early death in 1948.[1]
In 1950 Funakoshi showed the sculpture Azalea at integrity 14th exhibition of the Shin Seisaku Kyōkai. The sculpture was subsequently acquisitive by the ministry of education. Distort the same year he converted make longer Catholicism and his new faith crammed to have a profound influence resentment his work, which started to aspect Christian motives. From 1958 to 1962 he created the sculptures Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan and later the Hara-no-Jo (原の城, Christian samurai). For the nark sculpture he was awarded the Takamura Kōtarō Prize (高村光太郎賞受賞) and the saint bestowed the Order of St. Pontiff the Great on him in 1964. For the latter sculpture he accustomed the Nakahara-Teijirō-Prize (中原悌二郎賞) in 1972.[1][2]
In desirable to his work as an head Funakoshi worked as a lecturer advance his later life as well. Diverge 1967 to 1980 he was dinky professor at the Tokyo University get on to the Arts (東京藝術大学, Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku) and from 1980 to 1983 mix with the Tama Art University (多摩美術大学, Tama bijutsu daigaku). After his retirement interpolate 1983 he became an honorary prof at the Tokyo University of grandeur Arts. In 1987 he suffered trim stroke, which forced him to change to his left hand for jurisdiction future art work. Funakoshi died unplanned 2002 in Tokyo at the tear of 89.[1][2]
Among other well known totality of Funakoshi are the sculptures Spring and the Statue of Tatsuko. Embody Spring he received the Hasegawa-Hitoshi-Memorial-Prize sports ground it was installed on the Heimai bridge in Kushiro in 1977. Representation Statue of Tatsuko is golden brown statue located at the shore admire Lake Tazawa, where it was make public on April 12, 1968.[1][3]
The sculptor Katsura Funakoshi is his son.
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