菊池家と芸術について

札幌農学校(現・北海道大学)出身の技師菊池捍(まもる)は、日本各地の農事試験場長を歴任。
後に、明治製糖株式会社台湾本社、 スマトラ興行株式会社の取締役として重責を担い活躍。
写真芸術に強い関心があった捍は、明治末期、岩手県初の 写真団体「岩手写真研究会」の会長を務めた。
捍の次男俊吉(しゅんきち)は、報道写真の分野で日本を代表する写真家の一人。戦前の陸軍のグラフ雑誌『FRONT』の報道カメラ マンとして活躍。
戦後は文部省の学術調査員の一員として、被爆した広島の地を撮影。その後、科学分野、岩手の 農村の暮らしの撮影など、幅広く活躍。
長女昌子(まさこ)の夫寺島貞志(ていし)は、戦前パリとモスクワで絵画を学び、日本のプロレタリア美術の先頭 に立って活躍した画家。
戦後は妻の実家がある岩手県花巻市に移り住み、制作活動を行い、多くの絵画愛好者や子供たちを育成し、
市内の芸術文化の振興を担う立役者となった。
また、三女聡子(としこ)は、戦後間もなく、ピアノの指導者として活躍。花巻市の芸術文化、県の音楽水準の 向上に大きく貢献した。
本WEBサイトは、菊池捍、菊池俊吉、寺島貞志を中心に、戦前・戦後の活動をご紹介いたします。

The Kikuchi family and art

Mamoru Kikuchi, an engineer who graduated from the Sapporo Agricultural College, headed various agricultural experiment stations before serving in important directorships with the Taiwan Head Office of Meiji Seito K.K. and Sumatra Kogyo K.K. Strongly interested in photographic arts, Mamoru chaired Iwate Prefecture's first photographic organization, the Iwate Photographic Society, in the closing years of the Meiji Period (1868–1912).
His second son, Shunkichi Kikuchi, was one of Japan's most prominent photographers. After serving as a photojournalist for the army graphical magazine Front before World War II, after the war he photographed the atomic bombing site of Hiroshima as a member of a Ministry of Education investigative team. Later, he played active roles in a wide range of fields, including science and photography of life in rural Iwate.
After studying art in Paris and Moscow, Teishi Terashima, the husband of Mamoru's eldest daughter Masako, was a leader in Japan's proletarian arts movement. After the war, he moved to his wife's hometown of Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture. There, while continuing his creative work, led promotion of arts and culture in the city, teaching art to children and nurturing numerous art aficionados.
Mamoru's third daughter, Toshiko Kikuchi, became a piano instructor soon after the war. She went on to contribute to arts and culture in Hanamaki and to raise the artistic level of music in the prefecture.
This website provides an introduction to the Kikuchi family's activities before and after World War II, focusing mainly on Mamoru Kikuchi, Shunkichi Kikuchi, and Teishi Terashima.