Tokyo School Bronze of a Peasant by Udagawa Kazuo

His bronze work is a collection in the Japanese Art Department of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This work, a farmer’s wife feeding a baby at lunch on a bench (bronze), is also reproduced in Professor HARADA Jiro’s article Studio: Japanese Art and Artists of Today V Metal work (page 102) His original name was UDAGAWA Sutejiro 宇田川捨次郎, which he used on his work until Meiji 39. He exhibited at the Third (Meiji 23, 1890) and Fifth (Meiji 36, 1903) at the Inland Industrial Exhibition (Naikoku kangyo hakurankai) --- in both cases using his earlier name Udagawa Sutejiro. In Meiji 39 he adopted his new art name Udagawa Kazuo. He exhibited at major exhibitions abroad: P-142 (Paris Great Expo in 1900, section 1), Q-43, 88 (Paris Great Expo in 1900, section 2), R-531 (Paris Great Expo in 1900, award winning section), S-123 (St Louise...

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