Uehara cones

Uehara Konen ( Japanese 上原 古 年 , real name: Uehara Sennosuke (上原 千 之 助); born December 16, 1877 in Tokyo ; died May 24, 1940 ) was a Japanese painter and woodblock artist of the Nihonga movement during the -Meiji- , Taishō and early Shōwa periods .

life and work

Uehara Konen was born in Tokyo. He began to study painting under Kajita Hanko (梶 田 半 古, 1870–1917), then switched to Matsumoto Fūko (松本 楓 湖, 1840–1923). He mainly deals with landscape painting, exhibited at official exhibitions and has received several awards.

He was influenced by the linework of Imamura Shiko . According to information from his publisher Watanabe , he worked as an official employee of the imperial household and for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was also in a relationship with Okakura Kakuzō for a time .

Only a few prints of woodcuts have survived, some that had been printed by the publisher Kobayashi Bunshichi (小 林文 七; 1861-1923) before the Kantō earthquake in 1923 , and a series that was printed by Watanabe afterwards. It was still almost exclusively about landscapes.

photos

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  Inuyama Castle

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  Sails off Mount Fuji

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  Big waves

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  Blooming tree

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  Village on the water

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  Bridge in Tokyo

literature

• Smith, Lawrence: Uehara Konen . In: Modern Japanese Prints. 1912-1989. Cross River Press, 1994. ISBN 1-55859-871-5 .

Web links

Commons : Uehara Konen  - 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 . Thus Uehara is the family name, Konen the first name.