Hashimoto Gahō

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Hashimoto Gahō ( Japanese 橋本 雅邦 ; August 21, 1835 - January 13, 1908 ; real name Masakuni ( 雅邦 )) was one of the last Japanese painters of the Kanō school . He contributed significantly to the development of painting in the Nihonga style.

Live and act

Hashimoto was the son of the painter Hashimoto Seien Osakuni, who was in the service of the Matsudaira of Kawagoe and from whom he also received his first lessons. In 1847 he became a student of Kanō Shōsen'in Masanobu ( 橋本 雅邦狩 野 勝 川 院 正 信, 1823-1880), who was the head of the Kobikichō school. Ten years later he became head of the painting school, a position that his older friend Kanō Hōgai (1828-1888) had once held.

In the years before and after 1868, when the Meiji Restoration took place, interest in Japan in the art that had hitherto been cultivated in the country waned. Hashimoto made his way through life by making maps for the Navy and teaching cartography at the Naval School. Interest in traditional art reawakened in the late 1970s and 1980s. Hashimoto has now won prizes at the first and second exhibition of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and thus received initial recognition.

Gahō and Hōgai were active in the picture viewing society founded by Ernest Fenollosa and Okakura Tenshin in 1885 ( 観 画 会 , Kanga-kai ). In 1888 he was appointed teacher in the department of traditional art at the Tokyo Art Academy, which was run by Okakura . In 1890 he was one of the first artists to be appointed "Artistic / Applied Members of the Imperial Chamber" ( 帝室 技 芸 員 , Teishitsu gigei-in ).

When Okakura resigned as headmaster in 1898, he followed him to establish the "Japanese Art Institute" ( Nihon Bijutsu-in ) together with the artists Yokoyama Taikan , Kawai Gyokudō , Shimomura Kanzan , Hishida Shunsō and others . Here he was able to pass on his artistic ideas for a number of years, namely the expansion of traditional Japanese painting to include perspective and shading.

photos

  • Tiger and dragon

  • landscape

  • Tiger and Dragon (left screen)

  • Tiger and Dragon (right screen)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Other Go (stage names) were Kokkisai ( 克己 齋 ), Shōen ( 勝 園 ), Suigetsu Gasei ( 酔 月 画 生 ) and Togansai ( 十 雁 齋 ).
  2. ↑ Left stamp: image part with tiger. Right stamp: Part of the image with a dragon head in the clouds at the top right.

literature

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

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personal data
SURNAME Hashimoto, Gahō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 橋本 雅邦 (Japanese); Hashimoto Masakuni (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1835
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1908