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Blind monks examining an elephant Print by Hanabusa Itcho

Blind monks examining an elephant

Daoist Immortal Print by Hanabusa Itcho

Daoist Immortal

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old woman

Hanabusa Itcho

On the ground, crouching man with a pot

Hanabusa Itcho

Portrait of a Poet

Hanabusa Itcho

Demon in a jump

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The exorcist Shoki and demons

Hanabusa Itcho

Three sitting men

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A man picks up a paint box

Hanabusa Itcho

A man and a boy with panniers

Hanabusa Itcho

Half-length figure of a floating angel

Hanabusa Itcho

Head of a warrior with Scaled Helm

Hanabusa Itcho

Production of tatami (floor mats)

Hanabusa Itcho

Young man cuts branch of a bush

Hanabusa Itcho

Young girl on the water

Hanabusa Itcho

Head of a demon

Hanabusa Itcho

Head of a demon

Hanabusa Itcho

Head of a hero

Hanabusa Itcho

Woman Sewing

Hanabusa Itcho

New Year dancer with a baton and tambourine

Hanabusa Itcho

Shinto priest with a rod to hang on the paper strip, and a group of people with children

Hanabusa Itcho

Sitting man with a box

Hanabusa Itcho

Dance of the Lion

Hanabusa Itcho

Two women with children on their backs

Hanabusa Itcho

Two men in a cornfield

Hanabusa Itchō (英 一蝶?, 1652 – February 7, 1724) was a Japanese painter, calligrapher, and haiku poet. He originally trained in the Kanō style, under Kanō Yasunobu, but ultimately rejected that style and became a literati (bunjin). He was also known as Hishikawa Waō and by a number of other art-names.

Biography

Born in Osaka[1] and the son of a physician, he was originally named Taga Shinkō. He studied Kanō painting, but soon abandoned the school and his master to form his own style, which would come to be known as the Hanabusa school.

He was exiled in 1698, for parodying one of the shogun's concubines in painting, to the island of Miyake-jima; he would not return until 1710. That year, in Edo, the artist would formally take the name Hanabusa Itchō.

Most of his paintings depicted typical urban life in Edo, and were approached from the perspective of a literati painter. His style, in-between the Kanō and ukiyo-e, is said to have been "more poetic and less formalistic than the Kanō school, and typical of the "bourgeois" spirit of the Genroku period".[2]

Hanabusa was the master of the later painter Sawaki Suushi.[3]

Hanabusa studied poetry under the master Matsuo Bashō, and is said to have been an excellent calligrapher as well.
See also

Hanabusa Itchō II - son and pupil of Itchō
nanga - "literati painting"

Notes

Lane, Richard (1978). "Images of the Floating World." Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky.
Frederic, Louis (2002). "Japan Encyclopedia." Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

http://pinktentacle.com/2008/02/edo-period-monster-paintings-by-sawaki-suushi/

References

Lane, Richard. (1978). Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192114471; OCLC 5246796

External links

Bridge of dreams: the Mary Griggs Burke collection of Japanese art, a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Hanabusa Itchō (see index)

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