Iwasa Matabē
; original name Araki Katsumochi 1578 – July 20, 1650) was a Japanese artist of the early Edo period, Tokugawa period, who specialized in genre scenes of historical events and illustrations of classical Japanese and Chinese literature, as well as portraits. He was the son of Araki Murashige, a prominent ''daimyō'' of the Sengoku period who had been made to commit suicide, leaving Matabei to be raised with his mother's family name, Iwasa. Matabei's work was noted for its distinctive figures, with large heads and delicately drawn features, and he was effective both in colour and monochrome ink-wash painting, using an individual brush technique combining Tosa and Kanō elements. Although trained by Kanō Naizen of the Kanō school, he was more influenced by the traditions of the Tosa school, and signed a late series of portraits of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals (1640) commissioned by the ''shōgun'' Tokugawa Iemitsu for a temple as "the artist Matabei of the later curren ...
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Iwasa Matabei Self Portrait
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