Background
Markino, Yoshio was born on December 25, 1874 in Koromo, Japan. Son of Toshimoto and Katsu (Toyama) Markino.
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Yoshio Markino
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Career
He was curious about and attracted to Western culture. When he was 24 (1893) he took ship at Yokohama, on his way to San Francisco. He enrolled at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and stayed in the city for the next four years.
In 1897 he went to London via New York, and decided to stay at the British capital where he spent most of his subsequent life and career (1897–1942).
He was well received among British writers and artists, and his illustrations of the city published in 1907 in The Colour of London got critical acclaim. This was followed by in 1908 by The Colour of Paris and The Colour of Rome, and in 1912 by The Charm of London.
Although unnamed, he plays an important role in Ransome"s Bohemia in London, and is considered to have been the model for the male protagonist in Shiel"s book The Yellow Wave (1905) — a Romeo and Juliet-type tragic romance on the background of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Between October 18, 1923 and March 9, 1927, he conducted an artistically fruitful visit to the United States.
His watercolour "The Plaza Hotel, New York City" dates from that visit (1924) (see external link).
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Membership
Member des peintures modernes de Paris, 1907. Picture: Cornelius’ House in Pompeii, in Luxembourg Museum, Paris. Illustrator: The Color of London.
