JAPANESE PAINTING
Categories: Japanese Painting, Japan, Art
Sesson, also called Jokei (如圭. 1504-1589), is one of the Muromachi periods (1336-1573) most outstanding painters. He was not living in the art centres of his time but spent the last years of his life as a Zen monk in Tamura (Iwashiro). Sesson studied the Chinese painting styles of the Song-Dynasty (960-1279) and of the Yuan-Dynasty (1271-1368) as well as the art of his predecessor, the great Japanese painter Sesshū (1420-1506). Sessons paintings are considered more elegant, but also less powerful than the paintings of Sesshū. Every important Asia collection in the world is proud to possess a painting from Sesson. Read more…
SOLD: Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna 徳川家綱, Falcon.
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Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641-1680) was the great-grandson of the first shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was the fourth shogun of the Edo period (1603-1868). The inheritance of his predecessor was a huge challenge for Tokugawa Ietsuna – but he mastered it successfully and is seen nowadays as one of the most able leaders of the Edo period. Read more…
Itō Jakuchū 伊藤若冲, Chicken beneath Peonies. 390.000 Yen
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Due to his universality as a painter, Itō Jakuchūs paintings are highly venerated and wanted, in and outside of Japan. Every monograph on his life and work presents his versed way of painting in any style. Itō Jakuchū symbolizes the ideal of a Japanese artist of the 18th century. Read more…
Japanese Painter Kanō Motonobu 狩野元信: Sea Bay (ask for the price)
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Kanō Motonobu is considered to be the founder of the Kanō School, the most prolific and important school of Japanese Painting and Japanese Art for centuries. Motonobu served the Shogun Ashikaga and by marrying into the family of the Tosa School (the Court Painters of the Japanese Emperor) he reached the top position in his field. Read more…
Japanese Painter Maruyama Ōkyō 圓山応挙: Chinese Beauty 350.000 Yen
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Maruyama Ōkyō is a towering figure in the Japanese Art of middle Edo Period. He was most influential for all coming painter generations in Kyoto (Shijō school). Ōkyō was not only well versed in Japanese Painting but also in the Chinese styles and had a command of Western techniques (perspective, realism). This idealized portrait of a Chinese beauty is painted in an extremely refined manner. Read more…
Ogata Kōrin 尾形光琳: Snow. Looking for timber for a drum 350.000 Yen
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Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716) was a ground-breaking painter. He is seen as the founder of the Rinpa style, which he developed using elements of his predecessors Sōtatsu and Kōetsu. Rinpa is a mix between real and decorative elements and the name means ‘School of Kōrin’. Read more…
Japanese Painter Matsumura Keibun 松村景文: Wisteria with two Sparrows 250.000 Yen
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Matsumura Keibun was a student of Maruyama Ōkyō, the founder of the Shijō School in Kyoto. This school is of the greatest importance for Japanese Painting and Japanese Art in the19th c. Keibun was in the service of a prince and lived at the Myōhō-in monastery in Kyoto. He excelled in the elegant classical Japanese Tradition of painting. Read more…
Hanabusa Itchō 英一蝶: Fox Spirit 180.000 Yen
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Hanabusa Itchō is a classic figure of Japanese Painting. Born in Osaka he went to Tokyo entering a Buddhist monastery. Proving to be unfit for a monastic life he tried to develop his talent as a painter. He was accepted by Yasunobu (1613-1685), one of the greatest painters of the Kanō School. But there too, rebelling against the academic directives, he was kicked out and became independent.
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Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎: Ofuku in the round window 180.000 Yen
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Kawanabe Kyōsai is an eccentric genius in the Japanese Painting of the Meiji Period. At the age of 19 he already became an established painter of the Kanō School, but he left this institution at the age of 27 and became independent. He was a bohemian and became especially famous for his representations of ghosts and weird scenes. Kyōsai painted often under the influence of alcohol. Read more…
Japanese Print Fudō Myōō 不動明王 Edo Period 70.000 Yen
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Fudō Myōō is a boddhisatva – a popular deity in Japanese Buddhism – who is always represented with a fearsome face appearing in a wreath of flames. This symbolizes the huge effort humans have to make for battling passions and worldly desires. The combination with letters in Indian Sanskrit is most peculiar. It is proof how in Japanese Art and in Japanese Calligraphy characters can bear images in a very powerful manner. Read more…
Shibata Zeshin 柴田是真, Still Life – Pumpkin and Mushrooms. 150.000 Yen
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Shibata Zeshin was one of the greatest lacquer work artists of the 19th century. His urushi-e (images painted with lacquer) are today highly valued treasures. Shibata Zeshin was also active as a painter and his use of colours remembers his lacquer work. Read more…