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Kanbara [Kambara], Tai
(b Sendai, 23 Feb 1898). Japanese painter. His family returned to Tokyo from Sendai, where his father had been posted, shortly after his birth. Accomplished in English, French and Italian, Kanbara was exposed at an early stage not only to the traditional ideas of European art but also to new trends. Learning of Futurism through Ikuma Arishima (1882–1974), he read Umberto Boccioni’s Pittura, scultura futuriste, dinamismo plastico (Milan, 1914) and corresponded with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. When he was 19 he published a collection of late Cubist poems, which also showed the influence of Futurism. In 1917 he showed an abstract painting at the fourth exhibition of the Nikakai (Second Division Association), and in 1920 he held a one-man show entitled Seimei no ryudo, ongakuteki sozo (‘The fluidity of life, musical creation’), at the same time publishing the Dai ikkai Kanbara Tai sengensho (‘First manifesto of Tai Kanbara’), in which he asserted a need to express ‘the fluidity of life and fluidity itself’.
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