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The Go Gawa poetry club (Japanese 五側), also known as the Group of Five poetry club or Gogawa poetry group, was a famous poetry club in
The club was associated with the Ichikawa acting family of Japan, and led by Rokujuen (Ichikawa Danjûro VII, also known as Ichikawa Masamochi or Yadoya Meshimori, 1753-1830). A
Edo
Edo ( ja, , , "bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
Edo, formerly a ''jōkamachi'' (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the ''de facto'' capital of ...
, Japan, during the early 19th century. Artists working for the group often wrote poetry on illustrated surimono, and signed their work with the Go Gawa symbol, an hourglass resembling the number five. By 1836, the club had already met 1,600 times.Hokkei "Monkey Trainer" surimono description, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2013. William Sturgis Bigelow Collection.
History
The club was associated with the Ichikawa acting family of Japan, and led by Rokujuen (Ichikawa Danjûro VII, also known as Ichikawa Masamochi or Yadoya Meshimori, 1753-1830). A kabuki
is a classical form of Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for its heavily-stylised performances, the often-glamorous costumes worn by performers, and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers.
Kabuki is thought to ...
actor, Rokujuen was also a scholar of Japanese classics, and translator of Chinese fables. Though earlier involved in Edo's artistic community, he had been banished from the town after a confrontation with authorities regarding his management of an inn.
Rokujuen returned to Edo at the beginning of the Bunka era in 1804. The first major surimono and kyōka anthology published by the group was called ''Shunkyōjō'', and appeared in 1810. The anthology resembled actor's critiques known as hyōbanki. The Go Gawa club published another major anthology, called ''kyōka hyōbanki'', in 1811 as a critique of other kyōka poets.
Kyōchōshi Fumimaro, a disciple of Rokujuen, continued to publish major anthologies for the Go Gawa club, including ''Haro no uta'' and ''Hajime no haro no kyōka-shū'' in 1816-17; both anthologies were themed around spring. Rokujuen disciple Tatei also published in affiliation with Go Gawa. The group continued to produce poetry and poetic anthems throughout the Bunsei and into the Tenpō eras.
Famous artists
Hokusai
, known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best known for the woodblock printing in Japan, woodblock print series ''Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'', which includes the ...
pupil Sunayama Hôtei Gosei designed surimono for Go Gawa, which he adapted for the first syllable of his name. Totoya Hokkei, Yashima Gakutei, and famed Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surfac ...
artist Kunisada
Utagawa Kunisada ( ja, 歌川 国貞; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (, ), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodbloc ...
also designed surimono for the group.
See also
*Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surfac ...
* Schools of ukiyo-e artists
Ukiyo-e artists may be organized into schools, which consist of a founding artist and those artists who were taught by or strongly influenced by him. Artists of the Osaka school are united both stylistically and geographically.Assignment of arti ...
* Edo period Japanese poetry
References
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