Japanese Art After 1333

Ike Taiga, View of Kojima Bay, Edo Period, late 18th century, silk hanging scroll with ink and color

Literati painting -Corresponds to a time to where people were rebellious against the idea of being cut off from the world -Characterized as a form of rebellious art -Use of color is profound -Intellectually a form of literati

Kano Hogai Bodhisattva Kannon Meiji Hanging scroll, ink, colors on silk 1883

-Europeans and Japanese get together to preserve Japanese painting -This painting is that Japanese art is modeled

Tea Jar, Edo Period, 18th century, Nabeshima ware, glazed porcelain

-Glaze porcelain -This jar would have been put to everyday use -Porcelain becomes one of Japan's biggest exports

Sesshu, Winter Landscape, Muromachi Period, c. 1470s, hanging scroll with ink on paper Splashed Ink-(haboku)

-His work is highly individualistic -Hard brush strokes (sign of feelings) -The act of painting was seen as a meditative act

Nagasawa Rosetsu, Bull and Puppy, Edo Period, late 18th century, paper screen with ink and gold wash

-Humorous painting -Gold wash -Use of 3D effect from shading -Subject matter is meant to be boring -Take something that is everyday and make it important

Japan

-Influenced profoundly by China -Shoguns run the country -Tokugawa isolates the country from the world, which allowed their art to become more Japanese -Color becomes a big part of Japanese art

Yosa Buson Cuckoo Flying over New Verdure Edo period late 18th century Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk. Appx. 5' x 2'

-Japanese literati painting -Idea of Cuku flying over forest was a sign from poetry -Dense patterns become almost abstract -Buson becomes a leader of Japanese literati

Kano Eitoku, Fusuma (sliding door panels) from the central room of the Jukoin, Daitokuji, Kyoto, Momoyama period, c. 1563-73, ink and gold on paper

-Kano is the grandson of the patriarch of the Kano family -Painting is a view of a Buddhist temple in the beginning of the previous dynasty -Funerary temple used to symbolize the circle of life -Minimal color -Yamato-e: Japanese paintings with Chinese style aesthetics

Ando Hiroshige Plum Estate, Kameido From One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Edo period 1857 Woodblock print, ink and colors on paper

-Looks very abstract -Idea of a floating world, almost dream like

Kano Eitoku Chinese Lions, Momoyama period late 16th century Six-panel screen, ink, colors, and gold leaf on paper 7'14" x 14'10"

-Momoyama style -Samurai want art that is lavish and rich -Gold leaf on paper to make it look rich

Bunsei, Landscape, Muromachi Period, mid-15th century, hanging scroll with ink on paper

-Monochromatic -The painter is not making known that there is water visible -Human element is minimalized

Takahashi Yuichi Oiran Meiji period o/c 1872

-Once Japan is open to the west, art schools are opened to teach people art in a western way

Chojiro, Tea Bowl called Yugure ("Twilight"), Momoyama Period, late 16th century, Raku ware Wabi, sabi, shibui

-Poverty, age, loneliness, bitterness -These are qualities they wanted -The clay of the tea bowls was very gritty and rough -Idea of asymmetry continued through the glaze put on the cups that would crack in its own way -Crazing: pattern of cracking among tea cups and bowls

Tawaraya Sotatsu, Waves at Matsushima, Edo Period, 17th century, folding paper screen with paint and gold leaf

-Rise of merchant class -This era was more isolated, no foreign trade or leaving the country -The merchants began to have more money, and crave more art -Older painting aesthetic -It was a way to share upper class art with those who were of the lower class -Strong use of color

Woman's Kosode with bamboo and citrus tree, Edo Period, early 18th century, satin with embroidery and stenciling

-Robes were created individually for the person -Works of art a person could wear -Hand made -Embroidery, stitching

Suzuki Harunobu, The Flowers of Beauty in the Floating World: Motoura and Yaezakura of the Minami Yamasakiya, Edo Period, 1769, woodblock on paper

-The first if not one of the first to apply more color to woodblock prints -The idea that shows a girl looking through a telescope, is to remind the people that they do not really have much access to the outside world

Yokoyama Taikan, Floating Lights, Meiji Period, 1909, silk hanging scroll with ink, colors and gold

-Trained by western teachers -Pan-Asian painting

Hiroshige, Plum Orchard in Kamata, Edo Period, c. 1857, polychrome woodblock print on paper

-Views of everyday life -Makes life look flat -The number of umbrellas forms a pattern

Influence of Zen Buddhism in Art

-Zen Buddhism is the overarching religion of the area -Focus on meditation -These gardens were environments created for meditation -Minimalism -Asymmetrical themes becomes important -The act of tending to one was considered to be a meditative act

Diagram of the Kojoin Guest House at Onjoji, Otsu, Momoyama period, 1601 Shoin Design

-tatami- woven mats -Tokonoma- Alco decorated with paintings -Shoji- wood room divider -Meant to give a sense of harmonious flow

Himeji Castle, Hyogo, Near Osaka, Momoyama Period, 1601-9

-the momoyama love luxury -At this time they had been exposed to European weaponry -Built to be able to withstand an attack -Curved rooflines make the building look weightless -Delicate and powerful -Walls were made of wood and plaster

Hokusai, The Great Wave, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Edo Period, c. 1831, polychrome woodblock print on paper Ukiyo-e, key block, registration marks

Hokusai -Example of art that is available to everyone -Carving of the image in reverse on a wood block -This color of blue was foreign to Japan -Expose the paper to a different blocks per color

Kano Motonobu Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian Sweeping with a Broom Muromachi period ca. 1513 Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

Kano!!!! -Patriarch of a family of painters -Named such because he had a studio in Kyoto -These hanging scrolls create a Fusuma: sliding panels -idea of guessing what is under the clouds -Use of the highlights of color -Hold the brush perpendicular to the paper

Sen no Rikyu, Taian Tearoom, Myokian Temple, Kyoto, Momoyama Period, 1582 Chanoyu (Tea Ceremony)

Sen no -Tea master -He solidified the concept of tea drinking to be more of a political ceremony -Meant to drink tea with someone who is unlike themselves -Anyone was able to partake in a tea ceremony -The conversations would be refined -The idea was to take a little niche and make it intimate for the participants

Tea Ceremonies

Terms attached to these ceremonies are: Simplicity, rustic, natural