|
Schools Of Ukiyo-e Artists
Ukiyo-e artists may be organized into schools, which consist of a founding artist and those artists who were taught by or strongly influenced by him. Artists of the Osaka school are united both stylistically and geographically.Assignment of artists into schools is derived from ''Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints,'' 2005 Not all of these artists designed woodblock prints, and some ukiyo-e artists had more than one teacher, and others are not known to be associated with any particular school. Asayama school (in Osaka) :Asayama Ashikuni (founder) :Ashisato :Ashifune :Ashihiro :Ashikiyo :Asayama Ashitaka :Asayama Ashitomo : Gigadō Ashiyuki (Nagakuni) :Jukōdō Yoshilkuni Eishi school (also known as Hosoda school) :Chōbunsai Eishi (founder) :Ichirakute Eisui : Chōkōsai Eishō :Chōkyōsai Eiri :Gessai Gabimaru :Chōensai Eishin :Rekisentei Eiri : Harukawa Eizan Furuyama school : Furuyama Moroshige (founder) : Furuyama Moromasa :Furuyama Morotane :Furuyama Moro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term translates as "picture of the floating world". In 1603, the city of Edo (Tokyo) became the seat of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate. The ''chōnin'' class (merchants, craftsmen and workers), positioned at the bottom of the social order, benefited the most from the city's rapid economic growth, and began to indulge in and patronise the entertainment of kabuki theatre, geisha, and courtesans of the pleasure districts; the term ("floating world") came to describe this hedonistic lifestyle. Printed or painted ukiyo-e works were popular with the ''chōnin'' class, who had become wealthy enough to afford to decorate their homes with them. The earliest ukiyo-e works eme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanagawa Shigenobu
was a Japanese artist in the ukiyo-e style. He was active in Edo from the Bunka period onward. His Osaka period dated from 1822 to 1825. In Edo, he resided in Honjo Yanagawa-chō district. He was first the pupil, then son-in-law, and finally adopted son of the Edo master painter Katsushika Hokusai. He designed illustrated books, prints, and surimono. In Osaka, he worked with the gifted block cutter and printer Tani Seikō. Shigenobu focused on theatrical subjects, but some of his best work in Osaka includes a series of deluxe ōban prints depicting geisha in the Shinmachi Nerimono parade in Osaka, and approximately 30 fine surimono on various subjects (at least 18 in collaboration with the Tsuru-ren Crane Group of kyōka poets), with blocks cut and printed by Seikō. His pupils included Utagawa Kuninao; Shigeharu; Yanagawa Nobusada (Yokinobu); Shigemasa; Shigemitsu. External linksYanagawa Shigenobu Iby Honolulu Museum of Art See also *Erotic art *Shunga *Ukiyo-e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsukawa Shunsen
, who is also known as Shunkō II, was a designer of books and ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints. He was born in 1762 and designed prints from about 1805 to about 1821. He initially studied with the Rimpa school artist Tsutsumi Tōrin III. In 1806 or 1807, Shunsen became a student of Katsukawa Shun'ei, and changed his name from “Kojimachi Shunsen” to “Katsukawa Shunsen”. In 1820 he succeeded Katsukawa Shunkō I, becoming Katsukawa Shunkō II. In the late 1820s, he ceased producing woodblock prints and devoted himself to painting ceramics. He died about 1830. Shunsen is best known for his genre scenes, landscapes A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the p ..., and prints of beautiful women. Gallery File:Shunsen - (h) carp fishing.jpg, Untitled woodblock pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsukawa Shun'ei
Katsukawa Shun'ei ( ja, 勝川 春英; 1762 – 13 December 1819) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. Shun'ei's real surname was Isoda (), and his father was a landlord named Isoda Jirōbei (). Shun'ei belonged to the Katsukawa school of artists; his earliest work dates to 1778. He designed mainly ''yakusha-e'' portraits of kabuki actors, and began producing ''ōkubi-e'' bust portraits as early as 1791. Together with Toyokuni I he illustrated the five-volume kabuki guide called ''Shibai kinmō zue'' ("Illustrated Guide to the Theatre") by Shikitei Sanba. He also made '' musha-e'' warrior prints and prints of sumo wrestlers. In he took over as head from his teacher, Shunshō. His most prominent students were and Katsukawa Shunsen. Shun'ei and several other artists, including Utamaro Kitagawa Utamaro ( ja, 喜多川 歌麿; – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsukawa Shunshō
Shunshō Katsukawa ( ja, 勝川 春章; 1726 – 19 January 1793) was a Japanese painter and printmaker in the '' ukiyo-e'' style, and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school. Shunshō studied under Miyagawa Shunsui, son and student of Miyagawa Chōshun, both equally famous and talented ukiyo-e artists. Shunshō is most well known for introducing a new form of ''yakusha-e'', prints depicting Kabuki actors. However, his ''bijin-ga'' (images of beautiful women) paintings, while less famous, are said by some scholars to be "the best in the second half of the 8th/nowiki> century".Paine, Robert Treat and Alexander Soper (1955). ''The Art and Architecture of Japan''. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 263. Biography Shunshō first came to Edo to study haiku and painting. He became a noted printmaker of actors with his first works dating from 1760. Though originally a member of the Torii school, he soon broke away and began his own style, which would later be dubbed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsukawa School
The Katsukawa school (勝川派, ''-ha'') was a school of Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' art, founded by Miyagawa Shunsui. It specialized in paintings ('' nikuhitsu-ga'') and prints of kabuki actors (''yakusha-e''), sumo wrestlers, and beautiful women (''bijin-ga''). The painter Miyagawa Shunsui changed his surname to Katsukawa. One of his students, Katsukawa Shunshō, took his surname and abandoned the school's tradition of painting well-dressed beauties in favour of ''yakusha-e'' portraits of kabuki actors, a domain once dominated by the Torii school. This new focus revived the actor print, which had lost popularity after Suzuki Harunobu's portraits of beauties rose to prominence in the late 1760s. Shunshō introduced the ''ōkubi-e'' "large-headed picture" in the 1760s. He and other members of the Katsukawa school, such as Shunkō, popularized ''ōkubi yakusha-e'' prints and the dusting of mica in the backgrounds to produce a luxurious glittering effect. Shunsui was the son and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsuno Chikanobu
{{Japan-artist-stub ...
Matsuno Chikanobu (, fl. 1720s) was a Japanese painter of the Kaigetsudō school of ukiyo-e art. Believed to be one of the most popular painters of his time, his work, very much in the Kaigetsudō style, consists largely of ' (pictures of beautiful ladies) and features bright colors and exquisite kimono fashions. He is believed to have worked closely with Baiōken Eishun, another Kaigetsudō artist whose style shows significant similarities. References *Lane, Richard (1978). ''Images of the Floating World''. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky. 18th-century Japanese artists Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Chikanobu Chikanobu is a Japanese name which can apply to a number of artists of the Edo period: * Kanō Chikanobu (1660–1728) of the Kanō school * Matsuno Chikanobu (fl. 1720s) of the Kaigetsudō school * Kitagawa Chikanobu (fl. early 19th century), stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baiōken Eishun
Baiōken Eishun ( ja, 梅翁軒永春; active ) was a Japanese painter and print artist of the Kaigetsudō school of ''ukiyo-e'' art. He is also alternatively known as Hasegawa Eishun , Baiōken Nagaharu, Takeda HarunobuMorse, Anne Nishimura et al. ''Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World 1690-1850''. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. p80. and a number of other art-names. He produced both hanging scroll full-color paintings typical of the Kaigetsudō style and mode, and a number of designs for illustrations for woodblock printed books. Richard Lane describes Eishun's work as very similar to that of Matsuno Chikanobu, though the courtesans in his '' bijinga'' (paintings of beauties) are somewhat taller, slimmer, and more serious-looking. Eishun, along with Chikanobu, represents something of a revival of the Kaigetsudō school which fell into decline in the preceding decades following the exile of its founder, Kaigetsudō Ando, in 1714. Notes Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaigetsudō Anchi
Kaigetsudō Anchi (, active ) was a Japanese artist of the Kaigetsudō school of ukiyo-e Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk t ... art. He was the student and likely the son of the school's founder, Kaigetsudō Ando. As is the case with most of the Kaigetsudō artists, the details of Anchi's life are almost completely unknown. His works, like those of other members of the school, are almost exclusively paintings, and of those almost all are of courtesans in exquisite kimono. His few woodblock prints are of the same subjects and style, and were likely a special commission. Though his works follow very much the distinctive style of Ando (and thus of the school as whole), Richard Lane points out that the attitude and emotion of the women in Anchi's works differs from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaigetsudō Ando
Kaigetsudō Ando (壊月堂安度, ), also known as Ando Yasunori, was a Japanese painter and the founder of the Kaigetsudō school of ukiyo-e art. Though influential and prolific, it is probable that many of the works attributed to him were painted by his disciples. He is a rarity among major ukiyo-e artists in that he made only paintings and never woodblock prints. Ando lived in the Suwa-chō district of Asakusa in Edo (modern Tokyo) near Sensō-ji temple, and on a major road which led to the Yoshiwara north of the city. Principally active from 1700–1714, some scholars have surmised that his early training may have been in '' ema'', wooden votive tablets sold at Shinto shrines. A distinctive element of his style is the sense of emptiness around his figures, an element which fits well with the medium of the ''ema''; this theory is supported by the idea of his location on the main road, where a great number of pilgrims and travelers would have passed daily. Some scholars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishikawa Toyonobu
was a Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' print artist. He is sometimes said to have been the same person as Nishimura Shigenobu, a contemporary ''ukiyo-e'' artist and student of Nishimura Shigenaga about whom very little is known. A pupil of Nishimura Shigenaga, Toyonobu produced many monochrome "lacquer prints" ('' urushi-e'') which reflected the influence of Okumura Masanobu as well. Many of these were ''yakusha-e'' (actor prints) and ''bijin-ga'' (images of beautiful women), including images of standing courtesans, whose faces conveyed an impassivity typical of the works of the Kaigetsudō school. Toyonobu also experimented with semi-nude forms, something his chief predecessors also did, but never succeeded in developing it into a trend or subgenre within ''ukiyo-e''. Art historian Richard Lane points out that these images, depicting women with the top half of their kimono open and let down to reveal their chests, were intended as suggestive and erotic, and were not "glorification o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
