@article{oai:tobunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006077,
 author = {吉田, 千鶴子 and Yoshida, Chizuko},
 issue = {414},
 journal = {美術研究, The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {in the Western Painting Division of Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko
addressed to Kuroda Seiki that are now in the collection
of the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties,
Tokyo. These include letters from Huang Fuzhou, the first
Chinese student to study at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko; Li
An (Shutong), the second Chinese student at the school,
and two other Chinese students who enrolled later, namely
Wang Jichuan (Yangyang) and Yan Zhikan. There is one
letter from Ko Eui-dong, the second Korean to enroll at
Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko. And there are two letters from Wang
Jichuan. This makes the total of six letters.
     We can gain a basic grasp of the foreign students who
attended Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko through the self-portrait
graduation works today in the University Art Museum,
Tokyo University of the Arts, along with albums of
graduation photographs and other materials that are in the
University Library of Tokyo University of the Arts. See in
this regard, Yoshida Chizuko, Kindai Tôajia bijutsu ryûgakusei
no kenkyû – Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkô gaikokujin ryûgakusei
shiryô [Research on Modern East Asian Overseas Students –
Historical Materials Related to Foreign Students at the Tokyo
Bijutsu Gakko], Yumani Shobo, 2009. However there is
very little material about overseas students in general, with
nothing more than the occasional writing left by individual
students, or articles in newspapers or magazines. This dearth
of documentary evidence leaves us with few clues about
their motives for study in Japan or what their lives were like
during their time in Japan. Thus these six letters can be seen
as extremely important material that provides both critical
new information about the students and an understanding
of their own thoughts in their own words. For example, Li
Shutong and Ko Eui-dong were both leaders in the modern
Western style painting of their respective home countries of
China and Korea, and this makes their letters to their revered
teacher Kuroda Seiki of great interest to researchers.
     In addition to these letters, the materials related to
Kuroda Seiki also include a letter from his acquaintance
Shigeno Shôichirô introducing the Chinese student Pan
Zijie who wanted to study at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko. The
name Pan Zijie is thought to refer to the overseas student
Pan Shouheng, and thus we have also published this letter
from Shigeno in this article.
     The following is a notation of the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko
enrollment periods for the above-named students and the
dates of their respective letters.

Letter 1. Huang Fuzhou: Entered school in 1905 (Meiji
38) and left before graduating in 1907 (Meiji 40). The
letter is dated December 1904 (Meiji 37), and thus dates
immediately before he entered the Hakubakai to prepare for
entrance to the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko.

Letters 2 and 3. Wang Jichuan (Yangyang): Entered school
in 1909 (Meiji 42), and graduated in 1915 (Taishô 4). The
two letters are dated to September 1909 (Meiji 41) when he
was preparing under Kuroda’s guidance to enter the Tokyo
Bijutsu Gakko, and to the following September 1910 (Meiji
42) when he was sending in paperwork related to his school
entrance.

Letter 4. Li An (Shutong): Entered in 1906 (Meiji 39) and
graduated in 1912 (Meiji 44). The letter is dated to June
1912 (Meiji 44), after he had graduated and returned to his
homeland, and then came back to Japan to buy teaching
materials for the Zhili Technical High School where he was
working.

Letter 5. Yan Zhikai: Entered in 1912 (Taishô 1) and
graduated in 1917 (Taishô 6), and then stayed on as a
graduate student at the school and traveled to the United
States in 1918 (Taishô 7). The letter is dated to 1918 (Taishô
7) and was a greeting letter sent while he was in the United
States.

Letter 6. Ko Eui-dong: Entered in 1909 (Meiji 42) and
graduated in 1915 (Taishô 4). The letter was written at the
Japanese home of the Korean Earl Ko Eui-kyong when Euidong
visited Japan eight years after his graduation.

Letter 7. Overseas student-related materials. Letter from
Shigeno Shôichirô. Written in November 1909 (Meiji 42),
introducing the prospective student Pan Shouheng, who
went on to enter the school in 1910 (Meiji 43) and graduate
in 1915 (Taishô 4).},
 pages = {58--73},
 title = {研究資料　黒田清輝宛外国人留学生書簡　影印・翻刻・解題},
 year = {2015}
}