Photo Gallery

Mankichi (Hakutei) around age 4

Hakutei, age 15, and younger brother Teiji, age 13 (1896)

Mt. Akagi climb (August 1904)

From left: Ōi Sōgo (poet), Yosano Hiroshi (poet and Myōjō editor), Igami Bonkotsu (woodblock carver), Takamura Kōtarō (sculptor and poet), Ishii Hakutei (wearing dark glasses because of his eye disease), Hirano Banri (poet)

(photo taken by Miyake Kokki, Western-style painter)

Shirankai members (around February 1908)

Front row from right: Morimoto, Fujishima Eisuke, Kawamura

Second row from right: Oda Kazuma, Ishii Hakutei, two unidentified

Back row from right: Isobe Chūichi, unidentified person, Higo Hikomaro, unidentified person, Yamamoto Kanae, unidentified person, Tsubaki

The Shirankai was a small organization for the study of Western-style painting originally formed by co-workers at the Printing Bureau but later joined by others outside the Bureau.

Ishii family (around 1922)

Kayo holding daughter Yutaka, daughters Wakana and Mifuyu, mother Fuji, daughter Kaoru, Hakutei

Hakutei playing mahjong with his children (1929)

Hakutei in his studio at his house in Watanabe-chō, Tokyo (1930)

Hakutei in his studio with his painting "Portrait of Twenty Nikakai Members" (destroyed during the war) (1933)

Ishii family (around 1935)

Back row from left: Yutaka, Wakana, Jun, Mifuyu

Front row: Kaoru, Kayo, Yoh, Hatsumi, Hakutei

Hakutei painting in Okudo (Katsushika, Tokyo) (1936)

Hakutei with his 4 older daughters (1940)

From left: Wakana, Kaoru, Mifuyu, Yutaka

Hakutei, age 60, at the 1st Sōdaisha exhibition, held at the [Tokyo] Prefectural Art Museum (1941)

Sōdaisha was the group formed by artists who had studied under Hakutei.

Hakutei painting at Lake Nojiri with daughter Hatsumi and son Yoh looking on (around 1946)

Kayo and Hakutei with daughter Hatsumi and the Japan Alps in the background (around 1950)

(Photo taken by future son-in-law John Moss)

At their Lake Nojiri cottage (September 1952)

Hakutei, Kayo holding Izumi (Kaoru's son), daughters Yutaka (standing) and Kaoru

Hakutei and good friend and fellow artist Arishima Ikuma in front, daughter Yutaka and her husband Tasaka Ken in back (1954)

Two of Hakutei's daughters, Mifuyu and Yutaka, became artists and Tasaka Ken also was an artist who studied under Hakutei.

Hakutei at work (1954)

Hakutei painting Matsumoto Castle (1955)

With daughter Wakana and her family (May 1956)

From left: Wakana, Hakutei, granddaughters Sumie and Nioko, son-in-law Tomita Kakuzō

With daughter Hatsumi and family (1956)

From left: Hakutei, Hatsumi holding granddaughter Carolyn Megumi, son-in-law John Moss holding granddaughter Patricia Nozomi

Hakutei's 77th birthday celebration (1958)

From left: Hakutei, Kayo, fellow artist Arishima Ikuma giving a toast

With fellow artists and community leaders in front of their home at Asama Onsen 

(Hakutei is in the kimono in the center, Kayo is partially hidden two people to the left of him)

Ishii family in costume in front of their Lake Nojiri cottage (1957)

In front: grandson Tasaka Yoshihiko and daughter Yutaka

In back from left: daughter Mifuyu, Hakutei, son-in-law Tasaka Ken, wife Kayo, grandson Matsumura Ukuma

Kayo and Hakutei at Lake Nojiri (around 1957)