Chihiro Iwasaki, In Front of the Fireplace, Painting, Children's Art, Shikishi Board

Chihiro Iwasaki Girl Holding a Cat in Front of the Fireplace Shikishi Art Print with Frame

Product Description
★ Chihiro Iwasaki Shikishi Art Print with Frame

Shikishi Art Print No. 56 Girl Holding a Cat in Front of the Fireplace

Artwork Title: Girl Holding a Cat in Front of the Fireplace

Size (approx.): 27 x 24 cm
(There may be a few millimeters of error depending on the product)

Comments
★ Awards
1950 - Minister of Education Award (Kamishibai Mother's Story)
1956 - Shogakukan Children's Culture Award
1959 - Minister of Health and Welfare Award (Kamishibai How Many Moons?)
1961 - Sankei Children's Publishing Culture Award (Picture Book A, I, U, E, O Book)
1973 - Bologna International Children's Book Fair Graphic Prize (Picture Book The Day the Birds Came)
1974 - Leipzig International Book Fair Bronze Prize (Picture Book Children in the Midst of War)

Artist Biography
1918 - Born December 15th in Takefu City, Fukui Prefecture, the eldest daughter of Masakatsu Iwasaki, an architectural engineer at the Army's Engineering Headquarters, and Fumie, a high school teacher.
1919 - Moved to Tokyo.
1933 - Studied drawing and oil painting under Saburosuke Okada.
1937 - Studied calligraphy in the style of Fujiwara no Yukinari under Shuhei Oda.
1939 - April: Married after adopting a husband. June: Moved to Dalian, Manchuria, where her husband was stationed.
1940 - February: Returned to Japan due to her husband's suicide.
1942 - Began painting oil paintings again, studying under Tai Nakatani.
1944 - April: Traveled to Boli, Manchuria, accompanying the Giyu Women's Corps. Summer: Returned to Japan due to the worsening war situation.
1945 - May: Her house was burned down in an air raid, and she evacuated to her mother's family home in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture. The war ended.
1946 - Joined the Japanese Communist Party in Matsumoto, where she evacuated. In the same year, she moved to Tokyo and became a reporter for the People's Newspaper. She entered the Japanese Communist Party Propaganda Department and Art School and studied under Shun Maruki.
1949 - Met Yoshiaki Matsumoto. She drew the kamishibai Mother's Story, which won the Minister of Education Award the following year.
1950 - January: Married Yoshiaki Matsumoto.
1951 - April: Eldest son, Takeshi, was born.
1952 - Built a house in Shimo-shakujii, Nerima Ward, Tokyo (later the Chihiro Art Museum, Tokyo).
1974 - August 8th: Died of liver cancer at the age of 55.
1977 - September: The Chihiro Art Museum (later the Chihiro Art Museum, Tokyo) opened on the site of her former home.
1997 - April: The Azumino Chihiro Art Museum opened in Matsukawa Village, Azumi District, Nagano Prefecture.

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