中村麻美(なかむら・まみ)
English (Mami Nakamura)
画家・挿画家。
専門は歴史上の人物、偉人の逸話。
三重県津市生まれ。三重県立津西高校、津田塾大学学芸学部国際関係学科卒。大学在学中、深層心理学をメソッドに日本人の精神性を研究、また日本画塾で(田中峰雪氏に師事)作画の基礎を学ぶ。
英語個人教授業、NHKBSニュースキャスター、絵本翻訳業を経て日本の心を伝えるメディアとして絵画を志す。書籍、雑誌、新聞、テレビ番組等で歴史物、武人画、創業者等の挿画を手がけ、近年は歴史上の人物の本画作品制作にも新境地を開く。
(公財)日本武道館発行月刊『武道』表紙絵「伝えたい日本のこころ」シリーズ(企画ならびに絵と文2007〜)では、語り継がれるべき日本人のよい行い、精神伝統を伝える物語を描く。作品を通して、日本人の心の深層に宿る、誰もが共感できる善なる心のようなものをよびさます仕事、特に若い世代への語りかけに注力し、全国各地で個展、挿画展ならびに講演活動を行っている。1986年度ミス日本グランプリ。東京都在住。
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中村麻美 画歴
幼少期より油画を習うも、祖母の趣味の日本画・俳画に興味を抱く。
美大進学は周囲の反対に従順で断念。
津田塾大学時代、英語、社会心理学を専攻しながら、日本画塾に通い始める。
そのころ、安田靱彦、前田青邨、小林古径らの日本画(歴史画)に魅了され、また一方で河合隼雄氏の「昔話と日本人のこころ」「母性社会日本の病理」などに影響を受け、日本人の精神性を追求するようになる。
Mami Nakamura’s Profile
Mami Nakamura, a painter and an illustrator, graduated from Mie Prefectural Tsunishi High School and Tsuda University. While at the university, Nakamura studied Japanese-style painting under Hosetsu Tanaka. After working as an English tutor, a translator of picture storybooks, and an NHK satellite broadcast newscaster, she set her mind on painting as a profession.Nakamura created 460 illustrations for a newspaper serial story entitled Ten, Chi, Jin (Heaven, Earth, and Man),” which was later broadcast as a long-running NHK TV drama. This illustration series drew people’s attention to her works of art. Her masterpieces include Tsutaetai Nippon no Kokoro/The Japanese Mind I Wish to Share (2007), which is a collection of her illustrative paintings for the covers of a periodical entitled Budo (Martial Arts) published by the Nippon Budokan, as well as a portrait of Naoe Kanetsugu (in possession of Niigata Prefectural Library), and many others. She has held a large number of displays and exhibits of her illustrative paintings. Nakamura also serves as the Tourism Goodwill Ambassador for the Saiku Ato (the former site of a historic palace of Saio, a maiden princess serving for a shinto shrine) in Meiwa-cho, Mie Prefecture. Furthermore, in 1986, she won the 19th Miss Japan Grand Prix.
As a university student, she studied about the Legend of Hagoromo (the celestial robe of an angel), a kind of swan maiden story, and searched for the true sense of being Japanese through depth psychology. Later, she made a picture story book entitled Kaki (Persimmon) as a supplement to her graduation thesis. At a special talent show for the 1986 Miss Japan Grand Prix, she presented it in English and Japanese. The judges sang the praises of her talented performance, which helped her win the grand prix.In 2007, a little over 20 years after having won the grand prix, she began publishing a series of illustrative paintings, each with an original short story, which is entitled Tsutaetai Nippon no Kokoro/The Japanese Mind I Wish to Share. This publication was based on the ideas that she had cultivated over the years, introducing a series of paintings printed on the front cover of a periodical entitled Budo (Martial Arts) published by the Nippon Budokan. Nakamura has continued her research on model conduct, moral sense, and the spiritual traditions of the Japanese people while exhibiting her original illustrative paintings and giving lectures in various locations.