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Sō Shiseki. "Flowers and Birds in the Snow" 1765. Hanging scroll; color on silk. Kobe City Museum. Sō Shiseki (宋 紫石, 1715 – 9 April 1786 [1]) was a Japanese painter of the Nagasaki and Nanpin schools . Originally from Edo, he spent some time in Nagasaki, where he studied under the Chinese painter Song Ziyan, who was known as Sō ...
Bird-and-flower painting by Cai Han and Jin Xiaozhu, c. 17th century.. The huaniaohua is proper of 10th century China; and the most representative artists of this period are Huang Quan (哳㥳) (c. 900 – 965), who was an imperial painter for many years, and Xu Xi (徐熙) (937–975), who came from a prominent family but had never entered into officialdom.
Rinpa school. Spring Landscape, unknown Rinpa school painter, 18th century, six-screen ink and gold on paper. Rinpa (琳派, Rinpa) is one of the major historical schools of Japanese painting. It was created in 17th century Kyoto by Hon'ami Kōetsu (1558–1637) and Tawaraya Sōtatsu (d. c.1643). Roughly fifty years later, the style was ...
Imao Keinen. Illustration of two red birds and a white flower, from the Keinen Kachō Gafu album (1892) Imao Keinen (今尾 景年, Kyoto 1845 – 1924) was a Japanese painter and print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement. [ 1] In 1904 he was appointed as an Imperial Household Artist .
Japanese painting. Set of sliding doors of Frolicking Birds in Plum and Willow Trees by Kanō Sansetsu, 1631, Important Cultural Property. Japanese painting (絵画, kaiga; also gadō 画道) is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese visual arts, encompassing a wide variety of genres and styles. As with the history of ...
Life. Kuniyoshi was born on 1 January 1798, the son of a silk-dyer, Yanagiya Kichiyemon, [5] originally named Yoshisaburō. Apparently he assisted his father's business as a pattern designer, and some have suggested that this experience influenced his rich use of color and textile patterns in prints. It is said that Kuniyoshi was impressed, at ...
Born Chigusa Kitani at Kita-ku, Osaka Dōjima ( ja:堂島), the center of the Osaka (the second largest metropolitan area in Japan), in 1895 under the name Ei Yoshioka (吉岡 英, Yoshioka Ei). While studying at Shimizudani Girls' High School, She studied Bird-and-flower painting under Chokujō Fukada ( ja:深田直城, Fukada Chokujō) who is ...
Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the forefront of shinsaku-hanga and shin-hanga art movements. [1] Ohara Koson was famous as a master of kachō-e (bird-and-flower) designs. Throughout a prolific career ...