@article{oai:kansai-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00012606, author = {石川, 哲子}, journal = {東アジア文化交渉研究 = Journal of East Asian cultural interaction studies}, month = {Mar}, note = {After the Meiji Restoration, the modelling technique was introduced from the Europe, so the field of sculpture greatly changed in Japan. Most sculptors became to make a work by the modeling, not the carving from wood or ivory, and when the works of Auguste Rodin were introduced in Japan, this tendency grew. So, the wood sculpture fell into a crisis of the decline. Under such circumstances, there were a lot of sculptors who concentrate on the wood sculpture. Still, it was not often paid more attention, except some sculptors This paper looks at Nakatani Ganko (1868-1937), noted Japanese sculptor, regarded the sculpture form as a fine art and worked earlier in the transition period from an ornament for Tokonoma to a fine art of the values in the sculpture. He came from the country and was appreciated in some of Tokyo's artistic circles, but was largely unknown today, as were his creative activities, and most of his works have sadly been lost. And he is one of the sculptors who have been disregarded. This paper focus on one side of the history of the Japanese modern sculpture by considering it through the his activities how did he intend a wood sculpture in the Meiji period that greatly changed., 文部科学省グローバルCOEプログラム 関西大学文化交渉学教育研究拠点, [東アジアの言語と表象]}, pages = {67--79}, title = {中谷翫古と日本近代彫刻 : 明治期を中心に}, volume = {12}, year = {2019} }