Imao None

Imao None

Imao Keinen ( Japanese 今 尾 景 年 ,; born September 13, 1845 in Kyōto ; † October 5, 1924 ) was a Japanese painter of the Meiji and Taisho period .

life and work

Imao Keinen was born as the third son of Imao Inosuke (今 尾 猪 助). The family ran a business called Iseya (伊 勢 谷) and was on friendly terms with the Mitsui family's clothing store . Initially, Keinen had preliminary drawings for a kind of stencil printing on textiles for which Yūsen-some designed. At the age of 11 he became a student of Ukiyo-e artist Umegawa Tōkyo (梅川東 居), who in turn had learned from Umegawa Tōnan (梅川 東南), who apparently had dealt with copperplate engraving. Three years later, Keinen trained under Suzuki Hyakunen (鈴木 百年; 1828-1891), who taught him the style of the Maruyama Shijō school . Neither took over the nen from Hyakunen and the kei from the Matsumura Keibun, whom he admired

None dealt with different styles, then dealt mainly with the classic flower-and-bird theme (花鳥画, Kachō-ga), where he developed into the leading representative of the more conservative painting. In 1895 his picture Yabakei "耶馬 渓 図" was awarded at the 4th "Exhibition for the Promotion of Domestic Trade and Industry" (内 国 勧 業 博 覧 会, Kokunai kangyō hakurankai).

Together with Suzuki Shōnen (鈴木 松 年; 1848-1918), son of Hyakunens, Keinen took a leading position in Kyōtos artistic circles. In 1895 he was a co-founder of the "如雲 社" (Nyounsha), the later "京都 後 素 協会" (Kyōto kōso kyōkai), of which he was chairman. In 1919 he became a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (帝国 術 術 院, Teikoku Geijutsuin). In 1891 four volumes were published with the title "景 年 花鳥画 譜" (Keinen kachō gafu, picture collection of flowers and birds of no one). Neither was seen at the Paris World's Fair in 1889 and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

Exemplary works are in addition to the mentioned Yabakei "鷲 猿 図" (Shūen, eagle and monkey), "松 間 龍 月 図" (Shōkan ryūgetsu), "遊 鯉 図" (Yūri zu, playing carp) and "蓮池 遊 亀 図" ( Renchi yūki, turtles playing in the lotus pond).

photos

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  From the printing unit

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  From the printing unit

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  From the printing unit

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  From the printing unit

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  Peacocks in spring

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  Pines and peacocks, right screen

1. ↑ Owned by the Adachi Art Museum .
2. ↑ In the possession of the MOA art museum .

Remarks

1. ↑ Yūsen-some (友 禅 染) is a kind of batik dyeing of clothing fabrics, named after Miyazaki Yūsen (宮 崎 友 禅, 1654–1736).

literature

• MOA (Ed.): '' Imao None ''. In: Kindai Nihonga no kyoshō. 1983 catalog.

Web links

Commons : Imao Keinen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Imao None, CV

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Imao is the family name, not the first name.