Suzuki Harunobu

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Suzuki Harunobu ( Japanese 鈴木 春 信 ; * around 1725 ; † July 7, 1770 ), active from 1760 until his death, is a grandmaster of the middle Ukiyo-e period. Many of his approximately 1000 prints show gentle girls with slightly tilted heads and are therefore unmistakable. Harunobu was involved in the development of multicolor prints, the Nishike-e .

Harunobu is said to have orientated itself on works by the Chinese painter of the Ming period Qiu Ying ( Chinese  仇 英 , Pinyin Qíu Yīng , Japanese Kyū Ei). He had no students, but imitators, like Shiba Kōkan , who signed as Suzuki Harushige , until he then turned to another style.

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He is known for his many prints with hidden allusions. These include the

E-goyomi ( 絵 暦 ): Due to the lunar calendar, there were months with 29 days and 30 days. At the end of the year, Harunobu made pretty prints showing the long and short months for the next year, but not at first sight. Today one can find the year for which the sheet was intended from the distribution of the long and short months.

In the E-goyomi shown, the long and short months are hidden in the shell decorations of the robe. The sheet was for the year Meiwa 2nd d. i. 1764, created.

Mitate-e ( 見 立 絵 ): Mitate is mostly translated as parody or travesty. What is meant is the representation of a known scene through an image from which it can be guessed.

The shown Mitate-e belongs to the Zashiki hakkei series and shows the returning sails (e.g. from the Eight Views of Lake Biwa ) with the help of tenugui (cloths) hung up to dry .

photos

Individual evidence

  1. Inagaki, p. 34

Remarks

  1. With the usual 12 months per year in Japan, the year was 10.11 days shorter: every three years a leap month had to be inserted.
  2. A girl in love jumps off the Kiyomizu-dera towards her boyfriend.

literature

  • Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 291 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
  • Basil Stewart: A guide to Japanese prints and their subject matter . Courier Dover Publication 1992, ISBN 9780486238098 , pp. 41–42 ( excerpt (Google) )
  • J. Hillier: Japanese Color Prints . Phaidon, 3rd edition 1993 ( online copy )
  • James Albert Michener: The Floating World - University of Hawaii Press 1983, ISBN 0824808738 , pp. 84–94 ( excerpt (Google) )
  • Tadashi Kobayashi, Mark A. Harbison: Ukiyo-e: An Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Prints . Kodansha International 1997, ISBN 4770021828 , pp. 82–83 ( excerpt (Google) )
  • Inagaki S. Zusetsu Ukiyoe Nyumon . (Ukiyoe, an illustrated introduction) Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1990. ISBN 4-309-72476-0

Web links

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