Ochiai Yoshiiku

"Crocodile chases a man".

Ochiai Yoshiiku ( Japanese 落 合 芳 幾 , real name Ochiai Ikujirō ( 落 合 幾次 郎 ); born 1833 in Edo ; died February 6, 1904 ) was a Japanese painter in the ukiyoe style of the early Meiji period . His stage name was Ikkeisai ( 一蕙斎 ) Keisai ( 蕙斎 ) Chokaro ( 麻霞楼 ) and Sharakusai ( 洒落斎 ).　

life and work

Yoshiiku was born in Edo, Asakusa, in a tea house that was used by curisans. In 1849 he began training with Utagawa Kuniyoshi , where he developed next to Tsukioka Yoshitoshi to an important student.

He created woodcuts of beautiful women, of kabuki actors, woodcuts for the story Genji-Monogatari , Yokohama pictures and woodcuts with humorous content ( 戯 画 , Giga). Together with Yoshitoshi he designed the series "28 folk heroes" ( 英名 二 十八 衆 句 , Eimei nijūhasshūku ) in 1866/1867 , with which 28 well-known actors were portrayed. - In competition with the emerging photography, Yoshiiku designed a series in 1870 with the title “ Realistic mirrors of actors” ( 俳 優 写真 鏡 , Haiyū shashin-kyō ), but it failed quite a bit. He then no longer strived for a photographic representation of his subjects.

Yoshiiku was not only an artist, he was also a good businessman. In 1872 he financially supported the newspaper Tōkyō Nichinichi Shimbun ( 東京 日 々 新聞 ) and contributed pictures for the first edition. A few years later, the newspaper publisher brought out the volume Tōkyō Nichinichi Shimbun Daikin ( 東京 日 々 新聞 大 錦 ), in which the images on the third page of the newspaper were now reproduced in the highest color quality. His rival Yoshitoshi started a similar project with his publisher, the owner of Kinshōdō ( 絹 昇堂 ). The boom in these prints was limited to a few years.

Further publishing undertakings failed in the later years, so that Yoshiiku spent his old age very withdrawn.

photos

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  Akechi Mitsuhide

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  Chosokabe Nobuchika

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  Leaf Hodogaya

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  "Realistic figures"

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  "Realistic figures"

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  French in Yokohama

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  American and Chinese under vocabulary list.

Remarks

1. ↑ Shashin is the common word for photography today.
2. ↑ Vocabulary is listed above, with the corresponding word in Dutch in Hiragana under the Chinese characters . On the right in the first column is “ 壱 を ゑ え ん ﾄ い う ” (ichi o een to iu), so “Ichi means one”.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the newspaper Tōkyō Nichinichi Shimbun.
2. ↑ ^{a b} From the series "Heroes in Taiheiki" ( 太平 記 英勇 博 , Taiheiki eiyū-haku).
3. ↑ From his series " 53 Stations of Tōkaidō ".
4. ↑ ^{a b} From the series "Realistic figures in the moonlight" ( 写真 の 月 花 の 姿 絵 , Makoto no tsukihana no sugata-e),

literature

• Meech-Pekarik, Julia: News of the West: Yokohama prints. In: The world of the Meiji Print. Weatherhill, 1986. ISBN 0-8348-0209-0 .
• Inagaki, Shin'ichi: Ochiai Yoshiiku. In: Ukiyoe Nyūmon. Kawade, 1990. ISBN 4-309-72476-0 .

Web links

Commons : Utagawa Yoshiiku  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Ochiai is the family name, Yoshiiku the first name.