Watanabe Shikō
Watanabe Shikō or Motooki (渡辺 始興; 1683 - 5 September 1755) was a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school. Also known by his common name Kyūma, his other art names included Shōken (松軒) and Soshin (素信). Life and work Watanabe was born in 1683, in Kyoto. The first reliable reference to Watanabe comes from a diary belonging to the Konoe family, dating from 1708. Based on this entry, it may be inferred that he was a rōnin who entered the employ of Konoe Iehiro. Another source was a notebook kept by a Samurai doctor named Yamashina Dōan, which dealt with Konoe's activities and mentions Watanabe four times. This notebook was later lost in a fire. In 1717, he was known to be in the Imperial service. In 1735, he completed copies of a set of scrolls known as the Kasuga Gongen Genki E, Kasuga Gongen Genki, dating from the kamakura period, which are now kept in the Yōmei Bunko, an historical archive in Kyōto. This was followed by large format pictures, displaying the dev ...
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