Teikichi Hikoyama
Born in Shizuoka Prefecture. According to his mother’s address in the draft registration, it is believed that his hometown was Ejiri Town (now Shimizu Ward, Shizuoka City). The passenger list indicates that he arrived in San Francisco in 1902. From around 1919 to 1925, he resided with Shigeki Oka, a socialist in San Francisco, and assisted Oka’s Kimmon Press. In 1921, Hikoyama along with Chiura Obata and Matsusaburo George Hibi, co-founded the East West Art Society. The catalog from the second exhibition reveals that Hikoyama displayed 12 works, second in quantity to Obata. Credited as the first Japanese printing artist, his supporters’ clubs were established with the system of work distribution membership. In 1926, he was involved in the inauguration of Sangenshoku Ga Kai (Three Primary Colors Art Group), which gathered younger artists in San Francisco. In 1932, just before his coming back to Japan, he held his final solo exhibition at Kinmon Gakuen in San Francisco. He exhibited oil paintings at the third and the sixth Japan Independent Exhibition in 1951 and 1954. He passed away in Tokyo in 1957.
- Teikichi Hikoyama, "Coastal Scene" ：
- ca. 1930, Oil on canvas, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University (The Michael Donald Brown Collection, made possible by the William Alden Campbell and Martha Campbell Art Acquisition Fund and the Asian American Art Initiative Acquisitions Fund, 2020.57)
