Yoshio Markino Timeline Map
This site contains three different virtual map tours (listed below) that serve to highlight Markino's movement throughout the world and throughout time. Markino traveled a lot and his position as a world traveler played a prominent role within his life and works of art. Please note that there are gaps in the timeline, in which case, Markino was most likely either traveling or in London. Each of the tours were created with help from William S. Rodner's Yoshio Markino: Chronology of His Life and Work. Rodner's chronology was adapted from a translation by Eriko Tomizawa-Kay of a chronology created by the Toyota City Museum of Local History.
Markino's Beginnings: Journey to London
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Komoro (Toyota), Aichi, Japan (1869-1884)
Markino was born and raised in the village Komoro, now the city of Toyota. Image Details: Koromo City to Toyota City 1959, Wikimedia Commons
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Chita, Aichi, Japan (August 1884 - c. October 1884)
Works as an assistant school teacher, but then resigns.
Image Details: Nyrate, Chita City Skyline, Wikimedia Commons
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Komoro (Toyota), Aichi, Japan (c. August 1884 - c. October 1887)
Returns to Komoro to live with his father.
Image Details: Koromo City to Toyota City 1959, Wikimedia Commons
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Atsuta, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan (October 1887 - Summer 1890)
Starts attending Nagoya Eiwa School.
Image Details: Akahito Yamabe, Nagoya City, Wikimedia Commons
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San Francisco, California, United States (July 1893-August 1897)
Moves to San Francisco to study art and starts attending Hopkins Art School.
Image Details: Digon3, San Francisco at Sunset, Wikimedia Commons
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New York, New York, United States (August 1897 - November 1897)
Tired of his hand-to-mouth existence in San Francisco, he travels to New York.
Image Details: Derzsi Elekes Andor, New York, New York 1977, Wikimedia Commons
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Paris, Île-de-France, France (November 1897 - December 1897)
Travels to Paris to meet with Tadamasa Hyashi, but the art dealer had left for Japan before Markino arrived.
Image Details: Brigitte ALLIOT, Paris Patrimoine, Wikimedia Commons
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London, Greater London, England (December 1897 - August 1907)
Goes to London on recommendation from a friend and largely lives there for the rest of his life
Image Details: Balise42, Westminster Palace and Big Ben, Wikimedia Commons
His Life and Work in London and Western Europe
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London, Greater London, England (December 1897 - August 1907)
He decides to move to London. During his time there he works at the Japanese Naval Inspector's Office, studies art, paints watercolors including illustrations, and also does some sketch work. Some of his art is published in various newspapers and other publications. The Colour of London, a book illustrated by Markino, is published in 1907 and is his first major success.
Image Details: Balise42, Westminster Palace and Big Ben, Wikimedia Commons
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Paris, Île-de-France, France (August 1907 - June 1908)
Works on illustrations for the book The Colour of Paris.
Image Details: Brigitte ALLIOT, Paris Patrimoine, Wikimedia Commons
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Rome, Italy (October 1908 - May 1909)
Works on illustrations for the book The Colour of Rome.
Image Details: Nicholas Hartmann, Panoramic view of the skyline of Rome, Italy, Wikimedia Commons
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Paris, Île-de-France, France (May 1909)
Visits Paris on his way back to London.
Image Details: Brigitte ALLIOT, Paris Patrimoine, Wikimedia Commons
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (September 1909 - December 1909)
Goes to Oxford to research illustrations for the book Oxford from Within.
Image Details: Diliff, Clarendon Building, Oxford, England - May 2010, Wikimedia Commons
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Italy (July 1910-October 1910)
Stays with Olave Porter (author of A Little Pilgramage in Italy) and the Sladens.
Image Details: Vyacheslav Argenberg, Rome, Italy, Altare della Patria (Altar of the Nation), Wikimedia Commons
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Women's Rights Lecture-Tour (1910)
Travels with suffragette Chritstabel Pankhurst on a women's rights lecture-tour.
Image Details: Linley Blathwayt, Suffragette Lillian Dove-Willcox 1911 planting, Wikimedia Commons
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Wedhampton, Witshire, England (Summer 1913)
Spends the summer with the Roscoes.
Image Details: Derek Harper, Footpath Near Wedhampton, Wikimedia Commons
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Wedhampton, Witshire, England (Christmas 1915)
Celebrates Christmas with the Roscoes.
Image Details: Derek Harper, Footpath Near Wedhampton, Wikimedia Commons
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Italy (July 1919)
Goes on a sketching tour with friend James Rye
Image Details: Vyacheslav Argenberg, Rome, Italy, Altare della Patria (Altar of the Nation), Wikimedia Commons
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Tour of Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg (1922)
Travels to see the sights and shows his works to the National Museum of History and Art in Luxembourg
Image Details: Cayambe, Luxembourg Pfaffenthal Alzette Béinchen, Wikimedia Commons
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France (c. 1923 - October 1923)
Becomes betrothed to a French woman named Marie Piron and departs for the United States (most likely New York) together in October 1923.
Image Details: Gary Todd, French Countryside Chateau-Neuf, Wikimedia Commons
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States (May 1925 - 1927)
Moves to Boston with his wife.
Image Details: Robbie Shade, Boston skyline from Malone Park, Chelsea, February 2014, Wikimedia Commons
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London, Greater London, England (1927 - September 1942)
Returns to England. His wife remains in the United States and he divorces her in September 1927.
In September 1942, Markino leaves for Japan due to World War II.
Image Details: Balise42, Westminster Palace and Big Ben, Wikimedia Commons
Return to Japan
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Japanese Nanjing Embassy, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China (December 1942 - July 1943)
After leaving England in 1942 due to the Second World War, Markino stays at the Japanese Embassy in Jiangsu, China with Mamoru Shigemitsu.
Image Details: Chensiyuan, zhangjiajie huangshizhai wulingyuan panorama 2012, Wikimedia Commons
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Tokyo? (July 1943 - 1945)
Stays at Mamoru Shigemisu's house until it is destroyed by an aerial bombing in 1945
Image Details: Zara Seemann, Tokyo-skyline, Wikimedia Commons
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Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan (1950-1956)
Lives in various places with different familes, but was often in Kamakura. October 18th, 1956, Markino dies in Akitsuki Hospital in Kamakura.
Image Details: Alexandar Vujadinovic, A small railway crossing in Kamakura, Japan, Wikimedia Commons