was a Japanese painter, book illustrator, and art teacher. He was born (as Yasuda Bairei) and lived in
Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin, Keihanshin metropolitan area along wi ...
. He was a member of the broad Maruyama-Shijo school and was a master of
kacho-e painting (depictions of birds and flowers) in the
Meiji period
The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912.
The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization ...
of
Japan.
Biography
In 1852, he went to study with the ''Maruyama-school'' painter, Nakajima Raisho (1796–1871). After Raisho's death, Bairei studied with the Shijo-school master Shiokawa Bunrin (1808–77).
His work included flower prints, bird prints
, and landscapes, with a touch of western realism. Bairei's Album of One Hundred Birds
Bairei Hyakucho Gafu
/ref> was published in 1881.
He opened an art school in 1880 and his students included Takeuchi Seihō
(December 20, 1864 – August 23, 1942) was a Japanese painter of the ''Nihonga'' genre, active from the Meiji through the early Shōwa period. One of the founders of ''nihonga'', his works spanned half a century and he was regarded as master o ...
, Kawai Gyokudō
was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter in the nihonga school, active from Meiji through Shōwa period Japan. His real name was Kawai Yoshisaburō.
Biography
Gyokudō was born in what is now Ichinomiya city, Aichi Prefecture, as the eldest ...
, and Uemura Shōen
was the pseudonym of an artist in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. Her real name was Uemura Tsune. Shōen was known primarily for her ''bijin-ga,'' or paintings of beautiful women, in the ''nihonga'' style, although sh ...
.
External links
The Lavenberg Collection - Kōno Bairei
Brooklyn Museum - Owls On Tree Limb
Notes
1844 births
1895 deaths
People from Kyoto
Japanese printmakers
Japanese illustrators
19th-century Japanese painters
Imperial household artists
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