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Tawaraya Sōtatsu was a Japanese artist who worked in "relative anonymity" as a part of the "craftsmen" class of artists during the early 17th century. He was a central figure of the Rinpa school of art in Kyoto. The Rinpa school of art grew in the early 17th century with the establishment of the bakufu (military government) in Edo, later named ...
Plate used to print ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e is a Japanese printmaking technique which flourished in the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of subjects including female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; Japanese flora and fauna; and erotica.
Large scale paintings were commissioned to adorn the castles and palaces of the military rulers. The Kanō school, patronized by the ruling class, was the most influential school of the period and, with 300 years of dominance, endured for the longest period in the history of Japanese painting.
Cleveland Museum of Art: 1,950 [8] USA Eugene, Oregon: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: 3,000+ Mainly Edo period prints USA Los Angeles: Pavilion for Japanese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art USA Newark, New Jersey: The Newark Museum of Art: 7,000 Concentrated in Edo, Meiji and Showa periods USA New York: Ronin Gallery
Painter and engraver, applied French oil painting techniques to traditional Japanese painting Ohno Bakufu: 1888–1976 Painter and printmaker Kawai Kanjirō: 1890–1966 Potter and a key figure in mingei (Japanese folk art) and studio pottery movements Yasuo Kuniyoshi: 1893–1953 Migrated to New York from Japan in 1906.
Rough Waves (Japanese: 波濤 図 屏風) is a painting by the Japanese artist Ogata Kōrin, on a two-panel byōbu (folding screen). The work was created c. 1704 – c. 1709, and depicts a swirl of stormy sea waves.
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Japanese Modern Art Painting From 1910 . Edition Stemmle. ISBN 3-908161-85-1; Watson, William, The Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600-1868, 1981, Royal Academy of Arts/Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Momoyama, Japanese art in the age of grandeur. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1975. ISBN 978-0-87099-125-7. Murase, Miyeko (2000).