Murata Kokoku

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Landscape with people

Murata Kōkoku ( Japanese 村田 香 谷 , actually Murata Shuku (村田 叔), other artist names: Ransetsu (蘭 雪) and Tekiho (適 圃); born in Fukuoka in 1831 ; died October 8, 1912 ) was a Japanese Nanga painter -Direction of the late Edo and Meiji periods .

life and work

Murata Kōkoku was the son of Murata Toho, a minor nanga painter. Kōkoku studied first under his father, then under Nukina Kaioku , before he went to Nagasaki and under Nukina's teacher Hidaka Tetsuō (日 高 鉄 翁; 1791–1877) and there under Kinoshita Itsuun (木 下 逸雲; 1800–1868), the Chinese painter Xú Yŭtíng (徐 雨亭) and others further educated.

Kōkoku made three trips to China and trained there. He taught at the Kyōto Municipal School for handicrafts and handicrafts (京 都市 美術 工 芸 学校, Kyōto-shi bijutsu kōgei gakkō). His best work as an artist was his landscape paintings.

photos

  • Tree Group

  • Landscape with a hermitage

  • Landscape with a hermitage

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dimensions 219.3 × 116.7 cm, owned by Sen'oku Hakkokan .

literature

  • Laurance P. Roberts: Murata Kōkoku . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Murata is the family name, Kōkoku the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Murata, Kokoku
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 村田 香 谷 (Japanese); Murata Shuku (real name); 村田 叔 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Fukuoka
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1912