JAPANESE PAINTING HISTORY

Japanese Painting History



Yosa Buson (1716 -1783)

(The Edo era in the mid Japan's poet, painter)

Poet, writer, painter Buson was down to the late Edo Kyoho learn haiku, while leaving the world of the haiku Edo, also familiar painting, wandering into the living for the first year after the Edo Hiroshi Yasushi, spent more than 10 years to travel around. Kyoto uplink Horeki first year received a heart to painting, as well as various styles of country and formed a unique style of painting self-printed books and studying the works of art of China. Inherited the footsteps of the early literati painting, literati painting was a Japanese Taisei was Ike Taiga and Buson Yosa(Marsha,1990). While away from the influence of China has a dream, it contributed greatly to creating a traditional Japanese literati painting. His Real family name was Taniguchi, or valley. "Buson” In the eighteenth century, haiku, renga Haijin lost popularity and put their efforts in creating hokkus. Buson, excellent painter and poet, was successful in evoking clear images in their hokkus, paintings full of light. The hokkus of Buson, unlike Basho, have no philosophy, no show emphatic gestures.

His expressions are at once refined, simple and have no equal in his art. He had genius and could give the feeling of eternity beyond the landscape, describing only a peaceful scene. His poems are descriptive, but its landscape is idealized rather realistic. This means that it wished to describe the essence of things, not their surfaces. The hokkus of Buson, which used a functional linguistic beauty has charmed many Japanese poets and has a great influence on modern haiku(Yasuhiro,1998).

Uragmi Gyokudo (1745-1820)

Uragmi Gyokudo born in 1745, in Bizen, a city of Japan and he died in October 10, 1820, in Kyoto) he was one of the famous Japanese musician and painter who stood out in depiction scene of natural world sensibly. The son of a retainer of Lord Ikeda of Okayama, Uragami took zither lessons early in life and continued his musical training after he himself became a retainer. He also studied Confucianism and a southern school of Chinese art with emphasis on scholarly and literary themes. After abruptly resigning his retainer ship in 1795, he wandered through various parts of Japan and finally settled down in Edo (now Tokyo) to help revive gagaku, or imperial court music. Although self-taught, he became a first-rate painter, gifted enough to carry on the tradition of the school of painting called Nan-ga (“Southern Painting”). He had a keen appreciation of nature, reproducing scenes with an amazing degree of realism. His Snow Sifted through Frozen Clouds is considered a masterpiece .

Comparison of their Paintings

Yosa Buson - “Snow Scene at night”

Figure one shows that 28cm130cm Trees, mountains and ridges soft scenes of Ri Moru snow and absorbing the city of Kyoto lined with gabled house. Haiku side of the training, learn self-taught painting, drawing and reading GaKu clause, a clause reading GaKu painting, Buson created a unique world of ...