Kanō Sansetsu

Sansetsu: signature and seal

Kanō Sansetsu ( Japanese 狩 野 山 雪 ; 1590 - May 1, 1651 , real name: Senga Mitsuie ( 千 賀 光 家 )) was an important Japanese painter of the early Edo period . He successfully continued the Kyō (Kyōto) branch of the Kanō School .

life and work

Sansetsu joined the workshop of Kanō Sanraku , who adopted him as a gifted student and later gave him his daughter as a wife.

Around 1629 Sansetsu worked, together with other painters from his school, on the scroll entitled "History of the Taima Temple " ( 當 麻 寺 縁 起 絵 巻 , Taima-dera engi emaki ), which is now in the Nara National Museum.

Around 1631 he and Sanraku were commissioned to decorate the Tenkyū-in ( 天球 院 ), a sub-temple of Myōshin-ji in Kyōto. Around 1632 he carried out a work entitled "The Great Confucianists in Different Ages " ( 歴 世 大儒 図 , Rekishi daiju-zu ) for the Hall of Confucius in Edo, center of Confucianism in Japan, under the direction of the Hayashi family.

In 1647 Sansetsu was commissioned by the court aristocrat Kujō Yukiie ( 九 条 幸 家 ; 1586-1665) to paint two panels to complement the "Thirty-three Kannon" in Tōfuku-ji in Kyōto. He then received the honorary title of Hokkyō.

Sansetsu was an eccentric person, gifted as a composer. He coined the Kanō style of the Kan'i period (1624-1644). His best-known work is the screen with the title "Water birds on a snowy bank" ( 雪 汀 水禽 図 , Settei suikin-zu ). Sansetsu was a connoisseur of the art scene and left a draft of an art history, ( 本 朝 画 史 , Honchō-gashi ). He is buried on the Sennyū-ji in Kyoto.

Sansetsu also led the stage names Tōgenshi ( 桃源 子 ), Dasokuken ( 蛇足 軒 ) and Shōhaku Sanjin ( 松柏 山人 ). In everyday life he was called Heishirō ( 平 四郎 ) or Nuidonosuke ( 縫 殿 助 ).

photos

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  Sliding doors

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  Water birds ...

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  ... on a snowy bank

literature

• Suzuki, Toshihiko (Ed.): Kano Sansetsu . In: NIhon daihyakka zensho (Denshibukku-han), Shogakukan, 1996.
• Tazawa Yutaka: Kano Sansetsu . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3
• Laurance P. Roberts: Kano Sansetsu . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. ' Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2

Web links

Commons : Kanō Sansetsu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

1. ↑ Hokkyō ( 法 橋 ), literally "Bridge to the Holy Scriptures", was an honorary title that was awarded to artists, among others.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kanō is the family name, Sansetsu the first name.