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was a Japanese painter
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and print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the ''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'' co ...
'' ("new prints") movement. In 1904 he was appointed as an Imperial Household Artist
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History
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Biography
He received a comprehensive education in variousJapanese art
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styles from the age of 12. In 1880 he received a professorship at the Kyoto School of Painting. Following the publication of the ' album in 1892, he became a member of the Art Committee of the imperial court and in 1919 a member of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts
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The ' (景年花鳥畫譜), published in 1892, is an album with an extensive series of bird-and-flower (') in woodblock print.
His works are part of many museum collections throughout the world.
References
Further reading
* Louise Norton Brown, Book Illustration in Japan (New York: Routledge, 1924), 198–201. * Jack Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, vol. 2 (London: Sotheby's, 1987), 800, 969. * Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992), 41.External links
* https://www.davidsongalleries.com/artists/modern/imao-keinen/ Ukiyo-e 1845 births 1924 deaths People from Kyoto Shin hanga artists 20th-century Japanese painters 20th-century printmakers Imperial household artists {{japan-painter-stub