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According to critic Robert Hughes, the core achievement in painting during the Edo period was the allusive and delicate work of the Rinpa artists; and in Hōitsu's large folding screen Flowers and Grasses of Summer and Autumn, he says, "you can almost feel the wind bending the rhythmical pattern of stems and leaves against their silver ground."
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 ...
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Flowering Plants of Summer and Autumn (夏秋草図屏風) is a painting on a pair of two-folded byōbu folding screens by Rinpa artist Sakai Hōitsu depicting plants and flowers from the autumn and summer seasons. Sakai Hōitsu (1761–1828) was a celebrated Japanese painter and an important member of the ...
Ogata Kōrin (Japanese: 尾形光琳; 1658 – June 2, 1716) was a Japanese landscape illustrator, lacquerer, painter, and textile designer of the Rinpa School. [1][2] Kōrin is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Irises [3] and Red and White Plum Blossoms [4] (both registered National Treasures), and his paintings on ceramics ...
Suzuki Kiitsu (Japanese: 鈴木其一, 1796–1858) was a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school. A student of the famous painter Sakai Hoitsu (1761–1828), [1] he was for a long time considered a minor member of Rinpa school of Japanese painting. [2] In recent years his work has been reevaluated and gained recognition, [3][4] leading to a ...
Nanpin school. Pine, Plum and Cranes by Shen Quan, 1759. Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk. The Palace Museum, Beijing. The Nanpin school (南蘋派 Nanpin-ha) was a school of painting which flourished in Nagasaki during the Edo period .
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 ...
Irises. screen. Irises (紙本金地著色燕子花図, shihonkinji chakushoku kakitsubata-zu) is a pair of six-panel folding screens (byōbu) by the Japanese artist Ogata Kōrin of the Rinpa school. It depicts an abstracted view of water with drifts of Japanese irises (Iris laevigata).