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Kiyokata Kaburagi
was the art-name of a Nihonga artist and the leading master of the ''bijin-ga'' genre in the Taishō and Shōwa eras. His legal name was Kaburaki Ken'ichi. The artist himself used the reading "Kaburaki", but many Western (and some Japanese) sources transliterate it as "Kaburagi". Biography Kaburaki was born in Kanda district of Tokyo to an affluent and literate family. His father was the founder and president of the ''Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun'' newspaper, and a writer of popular novels. In 1891, at the age of 13, Kaburaki was sent to become a pupil of the ''ukiyo-e'' artists Mizuno Toshikata and Taiso Yoshitoshi. His first job was as an illustrator for '' Yamato Shinbun,'' a Tokyo newspaper founded by his father. When he was sixteen, his father went bankrupt and the family had to sell their home. Kaburaki initially made his living as an illustrator, producing frontispiece illustrations called ''kuchi-e'', illustrating the titles of popular novels. His works were highly prai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamato Shinbun
was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan. Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan. Japanese history * Yamato people, the dominant ethnic group of Japan * Yamato period, when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province * Yamato clan, clan active in Japan since the Kofun period * ''Yamato-damashii'', the "Japanese spirit", or ''Yamato-gokoro'', the "Japanese heart/mind" * Yamato nadeshiko, the ideology of the perfect Japanese woman * Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty * Yamato-e, classical Japanese painting * ''Yamato-uta'', alternative term for ''waka'' (poetry) * Yamatai, ancient geographical term that may be associated with Yamato * Daiwa (other) is spelled using the same kanji as Yamato Geography Japan * Yamato Province, Japan, former province, present-day Nara Prefecture * Yama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin-hanga
was an art movement in early 20th-century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods, that revitalized the traditional ''ukiyo-e'' art rooted in the Edo and Meiji periods (17th–19th century). It maintained the traditional ''ukiyo-e'' collaborative system (''hanmoto'' system) where the artist, carver, printer, and publisher engaged in division of labor, as opposed to the parallel ''sōsaku-hanga'' (creative prints) movement which advocated the principles of "self-drawn" (''jiga''), "self-carved" (''jikoku'') and "self-printed" (''jizuri''), according to which the artist, with the desire of expressing the self, is the sole creator of art. The movement was initiated and nurtured by publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (1885–1962), and flourished from around 1915 to 1942, resuming on a smaller scale after the Second World War through the 1950s and 1960s. Inspired by European Impressionism (which itself had drawn from ukiyo-e), the artists incorporated Western elements such as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodblock Printing In Japan
Woodblock printing in Japan (, ''mokuhanga'') is a technique best known for its use in the ''ukiyo-e'' artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868) and similar to woodcut in Western printmaking in some regards, the mokuhanga technique differs in that it uses water-based inks—as opposed to western woodcut, which typically uses oil-based inks. The Japanese water-based inks provide a wide range of vivid colors, glazes, and transparency. History Early, to 13th century In 764 the Empress Kōken commissioned one million small wooden pagodas, each containing a small woodblock scroll printed with a Buddhist text (''Hyakumantō Darani''). These were distributed to temples around the country as thanks for the suppression of the Emi Rebellion of 764. These are the earliest examples of woodblock printing known, or documented, from Japan. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watanabe Shōzaburō
Watanabe ( and other variantsSee #Miscellaneous) is a Japanese surname derived from the noble and samurai Watanabe clan, a branch of the Minamoto clan, descending from the Emperor Saga (786-842), the 52nd Emperor of Japan, and refers to a location called 'Watanabe no tsu' which was settled by the Watanabe clan, who took the name of the place. It was located in the medieval period near the mouth of the Yodogawa River in Settsu Province, in present-day city of Osaka. History Origin The surname Watanabe comes from the Watanabe clan founded by Watanabe no Tsuna (953-1025), of the Saga Genji branch of the Minamoto clan, and his official name was Minamoto no Tsuna. He established the Watanabe branch of the Minamoto clan, taking the name from his stronghold at Watanabe no tsu, a port on the Yodogawa River in Settsu Province, and in 1020 he was appointed Tango no Kami (Governor of Tango Province). He was the son of Minamoto no Atsuru (933-953), married to a daughter of the '' Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawase Hasui
was an artist, one of modern Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. He was a prominent designer of the '' shin-hanga'' ("new prints") movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects with a style influenced by Western art. Like many earlier ukiyo-e prints, Hasui's works were commonly landscapes, but displayed atmospheric effects and natural lighting. Hasui designed approximately 620 prints over a career that spanned nearly forty years. Towards the end of his life the government recognized him as a Living National Treasure for his contribution to Japanese culture. Life Born 1883, from youth Hasui dreamed of an art career. His maternal uncle was Kanagaki Robun (1829–94), a Japanese author and journalist, who produced the first manga magazine. Hasui went to the school of the painter Aoyagi Bokusen as a young man. He sketched from nature, copied the masters' woodblock prints, and studied brush painting with Araki Kanyu. His parents had him take on the fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Somei
Yuki, Yūki or Yuuki may refer to: Places * Yuki, Hiroshima (Jinseki), a town in Jinseki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yuki, Hiroshima (Saeki), a town in Saeki District, Hiroshima, Japan * Yūki, Ibaraki, a city on Honshu island in Japan * Yuki, Tokushima, a town in Kaifu District, Japan * Yuki, North Korea, now officially called 'Sonbong', a sub-division of the North Korean city of Rason People * Yuki (given name), including a list of people named Yuki or Yūki * Yūki clan, a clan in 14th century Japan * Yuki people, an indigenous people of northwestern California * Yuqui people, also spelled Yuki, an indigenous people of Bolivia * Yu~ki, a 1990s bassist of Malice Mizer Family name * Yūki (surname), Japanese surname (, , , etc.) * Hiroe Yuki (1948–2011), Japanese badminton player * Kaori Yuki, manga artist active since 1987 Characters * Yuki-onna, a character in Japanese folklore * Asuna Yuuki, a character in the ''Sword Art Online'' light novel series * Mikan Yuuki, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsuoka Eikyu
Matsuoka (written: or lit. "pine tree hill") is a Japanese surname. Matsuoka is the 142nd most common name in Japan as of 2014, belonging to approximately 1 out of 865 people, or 141,900 individuals. It is most prevalent in Osaka, with the highest percentage per capita in Kochi and Kumamoto prefectures. Notable people with the surname include: ''(Names are listed by field, alphabetically by given name in the western convention of ''given-name, surname'' for clarity.)'' Academics *, Japanese philanthropist and cultural ambassador * Hiroyuki Matsuoka (born c. 1956), Japanese professor of infection and immunity *, Japanese baron and economics professor *, birth name of Kunio Yanagita, Japanese scholar and folklorist *, Japanese computer scientist *, Japanese naval officer, linguist, and ethnologist. * Japanese Confucianist and herbalist *Yoko Matsuoka McClain (1924–2011), Japanese-born American professor of language and literature * Yoky Matsuoka (born 1972), American comput ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hirafuku Hyakusui
Hirafuku Hyakusui, originally named Teizō (Japanese: 平福 百穂; 28 December 1877, Kakunodate - 30 October 1933, Kakunodate) was a Japanese painter in the nihonga style. Life and work His father, , was also a painter and gave him his first lessons. In 1894, he went to Tokyo, where he studied with . Three years later, he enrolled at the Tokyo Art School (now the Tokyo University of the Arts) and studied nihonga style art. He also began exhibiting at the and the and was awarded prizes at both. In 1900, together with , and several others, he helped create the "", a group devoted to introducing more realistic elements into the traditional styles. After a year of studying Western style design, he began producing illustrations for the ' (''The Nation''), a daily newspaper that was considered to be a quasi-official mouthpiece for the government. In 1914, he won some awards at the eighth exhibition (Bunten) of the Ministry of Culture. Two years later, he joined with Kaburagi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunten
The is a Japanese art exhibition established in 1907. The exhibition consists of five art faculties: Japanese Style and Western Style Painting, Sculpture, Craft as Art, and Sho (calligraphy). During each exhibition, works of the great masters are shown alongside works of new but talented artists. It claims to be the largest combined art exhibition of its kind in the world and the most popular in Japan. Bunten In 1907, under the supervision of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, then called Mombushō (文部省), the first state art exhibition took place, the Monbushō Bijtsu Tenrankai (文部省 美術展 覧 会), abbreviated to "bunten" (文 展). It was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (東京都美術館, Tōkyō-to Bijutsukan.)It had the three faculties: Japanese Style Painting, Western Style Painting and Sculpture. Works were approved after being examined by a jury. The series of exhibitions took place twelve times under this name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōka Izumi
, real name , was a Japanese people, Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the Empire of Japan, prewar period. Kyōka's writing differed greatly from that of the naturalist writers who dominated the literary scene at the time. Many of Kyōka's works are surrealist critiques of society. He is best known for a characteristic brand of Romanticism preferring tales of the supernatural heavily influenced by works of the earlier Edo period in Japanese art#Art of the Edo period, Japanese arts and Japanese literature, letters, which he tempered with his own personal vision of aesthetics and art in the modern age. He is also considered one of the supreme stylists in modern Japanese literature, and the difficulty and richness of his prose has been frequently noted by fellow authors and critics. Like Natsume Sōseki and other Japanese authors with pen names, Kyōka is usually known by his pen name rather than his real given name. Life Before Toky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
