KOJIMA Tokuyoshi
Born: 15 March 1874 – Died: 16 May 1944
Particulars:
Tokuyoshi was born in Gifu Prefecture. He was a married man with a brother in what is now part of Hashima City in Gifu. He was a farm worker in Kanaky / New Caledonia when the Pacific War broke out. He was taken to Australia and interned at Loveday Internment Camp in South Australia. He died of tuberculosis and bronchial pneumonia at the age of 70.
–Mayu Kanamori
More info:
Shigemi Nakamura-Simms
Artist/s Statement:
I created this picture with Kojima Tokuyoshi san in mind. I imagined that the last thing he would have wanted to see was a landscape with snow falling on the empty plains of his hometown.
Artist Bio:
Shigemi Nakamura-Simms constantly drew pictures from a young age. After overcoming her parents’ objections, she went to a high school specialising in arts and studied graphics at an art college. After graduation, she worked for eight years as an editorial designer at Magazine House in Japan, first for ‘Brutus’ and then for ‘Olive’. Unable to give up her childhood dream, she moved to the United Kingdom to study fine art again. She moved to Australia when she married and was busy raising her children, but now that they are grown, she continues to pursue her arts practice, while working as a graphic designer.