Fukuhara Gogaku

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Fukuhara Gogaku ( Japanese 福 原 五岳 , first name actually Genso (玄素, later 元素), further stage name : Gyokuhō (玉峯); born 1730 in Onomichi ( Hiroshima Prefecture ); died November 17, 1799 ) was a Japanese Nanga painter - Direction during the Middle Edo Period .

life and work

Fukuhara Gogaku was born in Onomichi in what was then the province of Bizen . He talked to the alcohol, enjoyed drinking with friends and composing elegant verses, especially loving composing “六 言” (Rokugon, Chinese “Liuyan”), verses that consisted of six characters per line. In painting he was a student of Ike no Taiga .

In the “画 帖 要約” (Gajō yōyaku), a work listing the biographies of many well-known artists, it can be read that “Gogaku studied landscape painting under Ike no Taiga. He used thick black ink extensively and freely, he was also good at figure painting. No one has surpassed him since Sakaki Hyakusen , so it is only right that he was famous in his day. "

In his later years Fukuhara lived in Osaka, where he continued to paint in the taiga style. His well-known works include a portrait of Taiga in old age and the "厳 島 神社 絵 馬 関羽 像" (Itsukushima jinja ema Kan'u zō, Guan Yu on a request picture in Itsukushima Shrine ).

photos

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  landscape

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  Ike no Taiga

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  God Hakutaka

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  "Grass and Flowers" screen

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  autumn

1. ↑ Owned by the Onomichi City Museum of Art.
2. ↑ farewell Sonehara Rokei.
3. ↑ Owned by the Hiroshima Art Museum.

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Fukuhara Gogaku  - 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 . Thus Fukuhara is the family name, Gogaku the first name.