Sakaki hyakuses

Sakaki Hyakusen ( Japanese 彭城百川 , actually Sakaki Shin'en (彭城真淵) further stage name : Hoshu (蓬洲) Senkan (僊観) and Hassendō (八仙堂); born 11. December 1697 in Nagoya ; d. October 2, 1752 ) was a Japanese painter of the Nanga direction during the middle Edo period .

life and work

Sakaki Hyakusen was born the son of a pharmacist in Nagoya. He lived in Kyoto, where he first worked with painting in the style of the Kanō school and with the Haikai poetry. But then he turned to Chinese painting, in particular that of the Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, and thus became an early representative of Nanga painting. Like other early Nanga painters, his works vary in quality. He also painted in the style of Yamato-e , also painted “Haiga” (俳 画), simply sketched paintings for haiku that were also painted. Another area was "Shinkei" (真 景), landscape paintings that depict existing places. Hyakusen was influenced by Yosa Buson and other painters of the time.

The style of his paintings shows that he took second- and third-tier paintings from the Yuan period and especially the Ming period, which came to Japan, as models and integrated elements into his paintings. His oeuvre therefore shows no uniformity, but it shows, above all, how early Japanese nanga painters adhered closely to the Chinese style of painting. He received the honorary title Hokkyō (法 橋) and was one of the few nanga painters who could earn a living by painting.

Hyakusen's best-known works are the "Screen with Landscapes" (山水 図 屏風; Important Cultural Property of Japan ) from 1747 in the Tokyo National Museum with dimensions of 160.0 × 368.1 cm and the "Plums and Bamboo" screen (梅 竹 図, Baichiku zu) owned by the Takeno family.

photos

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  Screen pair with landscape

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  Screen pair with plums

Remarks

1. ^ In the possession of the Tokyo National Museum.
2. ↑ Landscape in winter.
3. ↑ Two ladies on the river.
4. ↑ In the possession of Sen'oku Hakkokan , dimensions: 92.2 × 268.2 cm.

literature

• Tazawa, Yutaka: Sakaki Hyakusen . In: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha International, 1981. ISBN 0-87011-488-3 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Hyakusen . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

Commons : Sakaki Hyakusen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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