Kakutei

"Peonies and red-billed kitta " ( 牡丹 綬 帯 鳥 図, Botan jutaichō-zu ), 1769

Kakutei ( Japanese 鶴亭 ; 1722 - January 23, 1786 ) was a Japanese monk and painter of the Nanpin School . His other stage names ( gō ) were Joryō ( 如 量 ), Bei-ō ( 米 翁 ), Gojian ( 五 字 庵 ), Hyakuyō Sanjin ( 白羊 山人 ), Nansō-ō ( 南 窓 翁 ), Beisō-ō ( 梅 窓 翁 ). His monk name was Jōhaku ( 浄 博 ) and later Jōkō ( 浄光 ) and his adult name ( azana ) was Etatsu ( 恵 達 ), later Kaigan ( 海 眼 ).

life and work

Kakutei was born in Nagasaki and started under the priest Gakusō on Shōfuku-ji in, a temple of the Obaku School of Zen - Buddhism . At the same time he was studying painting in the realistic style taught by the Chinese painter Shen Quan in Nagasaki . It appears that he went to the Kansai area in his twenties . In any case, in 1747 he taught the young painter Kimura Kenkadō in Osaka in the Nanpin style, who thus gained a foothold in central Japan.

He then lived in Shiun-in, a sub-temple of Mampuku-ji , south of Kyoto . He made friends with Ike no Taiga and other painters and painted pictures in the Nanga style. Eventually he moved to Edo , lived and died in Ike-no-hata, Shitaya.

The work "Biographies of Nagasaki Painters" ( 長崎 画 人 伝 , Nagasaki gajin-den ) describes Kakutei's work as "calm and extraordinary," which shows how much he was valued. One of his best pictures is “Peonies and Little Birds” ( 牡丹 小 禽 図 , Botan shōkin-zu ) owned by the Tonomura family.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the possession of the Kobe City Museum
2. ↑ 鶴亭 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved November 7, 2015 (Japanese). 

Remarks

1. ↑ scientific name: Urocissa erythrorhyncha
2. ↑ The book was written by Watanabe Hideyoshi ( 渡 辺 秀 実 ; 1778-1830). The release date is unknown.

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 .