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Kobayashi Eitaku (, 22 April 1843 – 27 May 1890) was a Japanese artist and illustrator specializing in

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 of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk t ...

and

nihonga ''Nihonga'' (, "Japanese-style paintings") are Japanese paintings from about 1900 onwards that have been made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials. While based on traditions over a thousand years ...

Biography

Eitaku was born 22 April 1843, a third son of Miura Kichisaburo. At the age of 12 or 13 he became an apprentice under the

Kanō school The is one of the most famous schools of Japanese painting. The Kanō school of painting was the dominant style of painting from the late 15th century until the Meiji period which began in 1868, by which time the school had divided into many di ...

painter Kanō Eishin. Few years later he started to work for

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as an official painter, he was given a

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...

status. Ii Naosuke was assassinated in 1860, after that Eitaku started travel through the country, and then settled in Nihonbashi. After he left the Kanō school to produce ukiyo-e, it is said that the ukiyo-e painter

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took care of him. He studied different styles of painting, both Ming and Western; he studied ukiyo-e with

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and started to produce colourful prints after c. 1870. he also worked as an illustrator for the ''Yokohama mainichi shimbun'' newspaper, and created illustration for books. Eitaku's work long suffered the same low critical esteem in Japan as that of his contemporary, late-era ukiyo-e artists. It was valued more highly in the West—his painting ''Sugawara Michizane Praying on Tenpai-zan'' ( ', 1880) won a place in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Gallery

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References

Works cited

External links

Eitaku prints
at ukiyo-e.org

1843 births 1890 deaths 19th-century Japanese painters Ukiyo-e artists Nihonga painters Japanese illustrators {{Japan-painter-stub