Fukae Roshu

Fukae Roshū ( Japanese 深 江 蘆 舟 , real name: Fukae Shōroku (深 江 庄 六); born 1699 in Kyoto ; died May 25, 1757 ) was a Japanese painter of the Rimpa direction of the middle Edo period .

life and work

Fukae Roshū was born the eldest son of Fukae Shōzaemon (深 江 庄 左衛 門), an employee who worked for the state mint. Fukae is, next to Watanabe Shikō , the most important student of Ogata Kōrin , who was also closely related to the coin. Fukae worked in the Kōrin style, but his pictures show a simpler decorative style that is more reminiscent of the time before Kōrin, of Tawaraya Sōtatsu . - Fukae died at the age of 58, he was buried in the Saiun-in (西 雲 院), a sub-temple of Konkaikōmyō-ji (金 戒 光明 寺) in Kyoto.

His best-known works are the screen "蔦 細 道 図 屏風" (Tsuta hosomichi to byōbu, Narrow Way and Ivy) measuring 132.4 × 264.4 cm in the Tokyo National Museum ( important cultural asset of Japan ), the very similar screen in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the screen "草花 図 屏風" (Sōka to byōbu, grasses and flowers), formerly in the Kyūkyodō collection.

photos

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  subjects

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  Narrow way and ivy, Tokyo

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  Narrow Lane and Ivy, Cleveland

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  Hanging rolls

1. ↑ Two of six hanging scrolls, originally two parts of a six-part screen. Owned by the Freer Gallery of Art .

Remarks

1. ↑ There is a pair of screen pairs of the same name from Tawaraya Sōtatsu.

literature

• Tazawa, Yutaka: Fukae Roshū . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Fukae Roshū . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

Commons : Fukae Roshū  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Fukae is the family name, Roshū the first name.