Nobutake Ōkōchi

Nobutake Ōkōchi
大河内 信威
Born(1902-07-24)July 24, 1902
Tokyo, Japan
DiedJuly 12, 1990(1990-07-12) (aged 87)
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Other names
  • Shin'ichi Ogawa
  • Nobutake Isono
  • Fūsenshi Isono
  • Fūsenshi Ōkōchi
Alma materTokyo Imperial University
OccupationArt historian
SpouseShizue Kawarazaki
FatherMasatoshi Ōkōchi

Nobutake Ōkōchi (大河内 信威, Ōkōchi Nobutake, 24 July 1902 – 12 July 1990) was a Japanese art historian, critic and businessman who served as the fifth president of the Japan Ceramics Association from 1984 to 1990.[1] Before that, he was also a sympathiser for the cause of the Japanese Communist Party.[2][3]

Biography

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Although he did not enroll in a college or university, Ōkōchi was a member of the Urawa Higher literary group within the Shinjinkai.[4] He studied at Tokyo Imperial University.[5] Under the pseudonym of Shin'ichi Ogawa (小川 信一, Ogawa Shin'ichi), he worked for the Vanguard Theatre (前衛座, Zen'eiza), a Japanese theatre dedicated to countering the bourgeoisie, in 1927, along with other people.[6] In 1929, Ōkōchi, along with Kiyoshi Miki and others, formed the Proletarian Institute of Science (プロレタリア科学研究所, Puroretaria kagakukenkyūjo), in which he was the secretary general. In 1930, he solicited the fund for the cause of the Japanese Communist Party, for which Miki contributed to.[7] One year later, he was also the secretary general of the Japan Proletarian Cultural Federation (日本プロレタリア文化連盟, Nihon puroretaria bunka renmei). He worked with other left-wing groups on the evolution of capitalism in the second part of Analysis of Japanese Capitalism (日本資本主義発達史講座, Nihon shihonshugi hattatsu shi kōza).

During World War II, he worked for Riken as an executive in the Riken Konzern.[8] After the Riken Konzern was disbanded, he began to study the history of ceramics. While publishing works on ceramics, he primarily published under the names of Nobutake Isono (磯野 信威, Isono Nobutake), Fūsenshi Isono (磯野 風船子, Isono Fūsenshi)[9] or Fūsenshi Ōkōchi (大河内 風船子, Ōkōchi Fūsenshi). Ōkōchi supervised the opening of the Kakiden Gallery in 1978.[10] He served as the president of the Japan Ceramics Association from 1984, succeeding Kō Segawa,[11] until his death in 1990.[12][13][14]

Personal life

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Ōkōchi was the eldest son of Viscount Masatoshi Ōkōchi, the third director of Riken.[15] His younger brother was Nobuhiro Ōkōchi.[16] He was the first husband of actress Shizue Kawarazaki.[17]

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ 全国各種団体名鑑 (in Japanese). Vol. 2. 全国各種団体連合会. 1989. p. 652.
  2. ^ "再生共産党事件の主なるシンパサイザー" [Main syndrome of regenerative Communist Party case]. Kobe University Library (in Japanese). 1931-05-21. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  3. ^ Miyauchi, Isamu (1973). ある時代の手記: 一九三〇年代・日本共產党私史 [A note of a certain period: history of the Japanese Communist Party in the 1930s] (in Japanese). Kawade Shobo Shinsha Publishers Inc. p. 16.
  4. ^ Smith, Henry DeWitt (1972). Japan's First Student Radicals. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 233. Nobutake.
  5. ^ Asami, Masao (1999). 華族たちの近代 [Modernity of the lords] (in Japanese). NTT出版. p. 172. ISBN 9784757140097.
  6. ^ Salz, Jonah (2016). A History of Japanese Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 237. ISBN 9781316395325.
  7. ^ Kim, Yong Mok (1974). Miki Kiyoshi: a Representative Thinker of His Times. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley. p. 257.
  8. ^ "磯野 風船子" [Fūsenshi Isono]. Kotobank (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  9. ^ Miyauchi, Isamu (1976). 1930年代日本共産党私史 [History of the Japanese Communist Party in the 1930s] (in Japanese). San-ichi Publishing Co, Ltd. p. 16.
  10. ^ Yasuda, Mitsuko (April 2008). "Information on Reopening of KAKIDEN Gallery". KakiDen Gallery. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  11. ^ 陶說 [Pottery] (in Japanese). Japan Ceramics Association. 1985. p. 72.
  12. ^ Hirose, Takashi (2007). 持丸長者国家狂乱篇: 日本を動かした怪物たち (in Japanese). Diamond, Inc. p. 374. ISBN 9784478000816.
  13. ^ "年譜". 日本陶磁協会 (in Japanese). 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
  14. ^ "大河内信威". Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (in Japanese). Retrieved 2016-12-02.
  15. ^ Shingeki (in Japanese). Vol. 35. 1988. p. 107.
  16. ^ Miyata, Shinpei (1983). 科学者たちの自由な楽園: 栄光の理化学研究所 [Scientists' free paradise: Riken Glory] (in Japanese). 文芸春秋. p. 306. ISBN 9784163381206.
  17. ^ "「関 鑑子」伝 （青地 晨）". うたごえサークルおけら (in Japanese). 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
  18. ^ "大河内松平家（吉田藩）" [Ōkōchi-Matsudaira family (Yoshida Domain)]. Reichsarchiv (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-12-17.
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