Born in Taiwan, artist Tateishi Tetsuomi (1905-1980), was the son of Tateishi Yoshio, an official at the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan. He trained in both Japanese painting and Western drawing, and worked in various art forms including woodblock printing, illustration, and book design. He was invited to join the Taiyan Art Association as one of the founding members. During the period of Japanese occupation when Taiwan’s local culture was suppressed, Tateishi recorded Taiwan’s folk culture and people’s daily lives in his artwork. Sharing a similar fate with other wansei (a term given to a group of Taiwan-born Japanese during the Japanese occupation), he was forced to leave Taiwan after the war, losing most of his paintings. He resumed his artistic career after his repatriation to Japan. He published “Taiwan Picture Book,” a recollection of his time in Taiwan, including these paintings of Japanese people selling their things before leaving for Japan (image 3), and of Taiwanese people seeing off they Japanese friends at Keelung Harbour (image 4). This last one was entitled “I Love Taiwan.”
Sources: Taiwan Docs, Taiwan Memories, Almost Home: Taiwan, 風傳媒 Storm Media