Yumeji Takehisa<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Taisho era (1912\u201326)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Donated by Mikio Nagata<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yumeji Takehisa (1884\u20131934) was born in Okayama Prefecture. In 1905, after dropping out of Waseda Jitsugy\u014d High School, a college-preparatory school for Waseda University, he joined the Yomiuri Shimbun, where he contributed comics and articles for the newspaper. Encouraged by the Western-style painter Sabur\u014dsuke Okada to develop his individuality through self-taught art, Yumeji established his own unique style of depicting beautiful women. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yumeji Takehisa Taisho era (1912\u201326) Donated by Mikio Nagata Yumeji Takehisa (1884\u20131934) was born in Okayama P…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In 1909, he published his first book of paintings, Yumeji Picture Collection: Spring Volume<\/em>, which he illustrated and bound. His following collection, Yumeji-style Beauties<\/em>, was a huge hit and cemented his pop status with the masses. He also enjoyed a prolific career as an illustrator, producing many works for magazines targeting women and girls published around the end of the Meiji era (1868\u20131911).<\/p>\n\n\n\n