Yataro Miyata

Later, Yataro Miyata, Haruo Kiyie, and Mitsuru Nishikawa founded the magazine "Primakusa" and printed 150 copies.

He briefly worked in the painting department of the Taiwan Offset Printing Company and also as a temporary employee in the Taipei District Court.

From 1928 until he returned to Taiwan in 1929, Miyata studied painting while working at the Tokyo Institute of Art.

[6] In January 1935, the "Creative Printmaking Association" was established with Mitsuru Nishikawa, Tetsuomi Tateishi, Yoshimitsu Furukawa, Keiichi Fukui, Tsuruko Nomura, Sako Ohse, and others.

[7] In addition to "Mazu," Nishikawa Mitsuru's book "Asia" (July 1937) and his literary and art magazine " Bungei Taiwan " were also illustrated by Miyata Yataro and Tateishi Tetsuomi.

When Japan was defeated in August 1945, Miyata was relieved of his call and recuperated at home after suffering from asthma.

Miyata returned to Tokyo and lived with Nishikawa Mitsuru in the Taiwan Yin Yang Room in Asagaya.

A group photo taken at the 1930 Kantansha Experimental Exhibition, with Yataro Miyata on the right in the back row.