Online dictionary of history and traditions in Japan: artist

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Ando Hiroshige

安藤広重広重
alternative words: Hiroshige Ando, Andou Hiroshige, Hiroshige Andou, Hiroshige
keywords: artist , famous person , ukiyoe
related topics: Ukiyoe , Edo period
related web sites: http://www.csweb.co.jp/TBK/hirosige/art-hiro.htm , http://www.hikyaku.com/gallery/english/hakone.htm
explanation: Ukiyoe artist, Ando Hiroshige was born in Edo (actual Tokyo) in the 9th year of Kanse era (1797). At first, he learned to paint from Utagawa Hiroshige, then formed his own style by learning even from Western schools. The success of the series, Tokaido Gojyusantsugi made definitive his fame as a landscape painter.

Fujiwara no Sadaie

藤原定家藤原定家
alternative words: Fujiwarano Sadaie, Fujiwara no Teika, Fujiwarano Teika
keywords: artist , famous person , poesy , writer
related topics: Heian period , Kamakura period , Shin kokinshu
related web sites: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~sg2h-ymst/yamatouta/sennin/teika.html , http://www3.justnet.ne.jp/~mononoke/home.htm
explanation: Poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura period. Born in 1162 as a son of Fujiwara no Toshinari, another poet. Since he participated to an imperial poetry party at the age 17, his reputation had never ceased to spread and he was appointed by Gotoba joko to a compiler of "Shin kokinshu" in 1201. His style, "ushin", i.e. "aesthetic sensibility" had strongly influenced the poetry of the next generation. His diary, Meigetsuki is an excellent source to learn aristocrat's life of the epoch. He died in 1241.

Geisha

芸者芸妓芸子
alternative words: Geigi, Geiko, Geishas, Geisha girl
keywords: artist , music
related topics: Edo period , Meiji period
explanation: Traditional entertainers who offer music, dance and companionship in private restaurants and banquets. Professional entertainers without prostitution appeared during Edo period, both women and men. The latter was called "Taikomochi" i.e. "drum holder". During Meiji period, the profession of geish was prosperous but known some abuse: young girls were bought to form geisha. After WWII, because of the police control, the number of geisha has considerably declined.

Hashimoto Gaho

橋本雅邦
alternative words: Hashimoto Gahou, Gaho Hashimoto, Gahou Hashimoto
keywords: artist , famous person
related topics: Okakura Tenshin , Kano school , Meiji revolution , Yokoyama Taikan
related web sites: http://www.t3.rim.or.jp/~nichiren/hoke/hoke06.html , http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~fujibi/Curator_konoippinn_hashimotogahou.htm
explanation: Born in 1835 in a painter family of Tokyo. He studied at Kano school. Along with Kano Hogai, he introduced western style painting into Kano school but during Meiji revolution, he became extremely poor due to a lack of support for Japanese painting. After having won silver medals in a painting contest in 1879, he got a recognition of Okakura Tenshin. He became a professor at Tokyo bijutsu gakko in 1889 and formed new Japanese painters such as Yokoyama Taikan and Kawai Gyokudo. He died in 1908.

Hishikawa Moronobu

菱川師宣師宣
alternative words: Moronobu Hishikawa, Moronobu
keywords: artist , famous person , ukiyoe
related topics: Ukiyoe , Shunga , Edo period , Kano school
related web sites: http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~sanyo/sanyo/mikaeri1.html
explanation: Ukiyoe artist of the early Edo period. Born in 1618 in Chiba prefecture. Arriving to Tokyo, he worked not only as Ukiyoe artist, but also publisher, writer and painter, because Ukiyoe being not established as an independent discipline at that time. He left many master pieces on an active life of Edo citizens like prostitutes in brothel of Yoshiwara, by breaking off from the official but dull paint schools like Kano and Tosa, so he is considered father of Ukiyoe art. He died in 1694.

Katsushika Hokusai

葛飾北斎北斎
alternative words: Hokusai Katsushika, Hokusai
keywords: artist , famous person , ukiyoe
related topics: Ukiyoe , Edo period
related web sites: http://www.town.obuse.nagano.jp/hokusai/index/top.html , http://www.matchbox.co.jp/hokusai/hokusai.html , http://www.hikyaku.com/gallery/english/fugaku.htm
explanation: Katsushika Hokusai is an ukiyoe artist of the late Edo period and excels especially in landscapes and beauty portraits. He owned a very strong ego and the composition and the coloration of his pictures show an overflowing talent. The series Fugaku-Sanjyurokkei is his most representative work.

Ki no Tsurayuki

紀貫之
alternative words: Kino Tsurayuki, Tsurayuki Kino, Tsurayuki
keywords: artist , famous person , poesy , writer
related topics: Kokinwakashu , Heian period , Waka
related web sites: http://tourism.rikkyo.ac.jp/yasujima/kikoubun/sugata/
explanation: Poet and bureaucrat of Heian period. Born in a family of middle class bureaucrat in 872. Talented in waka (Japanese poems), he became the leading compiler of Konkinshu in 905 and added Kokinwakashu jo which is the first known critic work on Japanese poems. Then, he was nominated to the governor of Kochi prefecture in 930. The diary written during his return trip to Kyoto in 935, Tosa diary (Tosa nikki), is an initiator of pure Japanese style prose. He died in 945.

Kitagawa Utamaro

喜多川歌麿歌麿
alternative words: Utamaro Kitagawa, Utamaro
keywords: artist , famous person , ukiyoe
related topics: Edo period , Ukiyoe
related web sites: http://www.sannichi-ybs.co.jp/SYUNSEN/UTAMARO/uta.html , http://iris.hita.net/~city/west/toko/toko1.htm
explanation: Ukiyoe artist. Born in 1753 but his birth place unknown. He learned first drawing techniques from Toriyama Sekien and began his career as an illustrator for cheap popular books. His talent was soon recognized by a great ukiyoe publisher of that epoch, Tsutaya Juzaburo. Utamaro had been excelled in beauty portrait by zooming maximum women's face. After a condemnation by Edo shogunate to 3 days of jail for one of his drawings, his artist talent shrank. He died a few years later in 1806.

Matsuo Basho

松尾芭蕉芭蕉
alternative words: Basho Matsuo, Matsuo Bashou, Bashou Matsuo, Basho, Bashou
keywords: artist , famous person , poesy , writer
related topics: Haiku , Edo period
related web sites: http://www.bashouan.com/psBashou.htm , http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~hirobe/basyou/index.htm , http://www.ese.yamanashi.ac.jp/~itoyo/basho/basho.htm , http://133.67.71.133
explanation: Poet and travel writer of the early Edo period. Born in a samurai family of Mie prefecture in 1644, he learned Haiku first at Kyoto then Tokyo. There, he established gradually his own style and became a popular Haiku teacher. Unsatisfied with his fame, he spent the most of his advance ages in journeys. Nozarashi kiko (1684) related his journey in Kinki region, while Okuno hosomich (1689), in Tohoku region. He died in 1694 at Osaka when ready to depart to western Japan.

Ono no komachi

小野小町
alternative words: Onono Komachi, Ono Komachi, Komachi ono
keywords: artist , famous person , poesy
related topics: Heian period , Ki no Tsurayuki , Waka
related web sites: http://www.yutopia.or.jp/~ogachi/ , http://www.yutopia.or.jp/~numakura/ehon/komati00.htm , http://www1.biz.biglobe.ne.jp/~ono/page29.htm
explanation: Famous female poet of Heian period. She was ranked among the 6 best Waka poet (Rokkasen) by Ki no Tsurayuki, another famous poet. According to a legend, she would have born in Akita prefecture as daughter of a local official and been sent to Kyoto at the age of 13. Thanks to her beauty and intelligence, she became famous and attracted many wooers but finally returned back to Akita and died there. Excepting for about one hundred poems, her real life remains mysterious.

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