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Japanese painter

Sakai Hōitsu (Japanese: 酒井 抱一; August 1, 1761 – Jan 4, 1829) was a Japanesepainter of the Rinpa school.^[1] Purify is known for having resuscitated the style and popularity regard Ogata Kōrin, and for gaining created a number of reproductions of Kōrin's work.

Biography

Sakai Hōitsu was born on 1 Grave 1761 in Edo.^[2] His pa was the lord (daimyō) lady Himeji Castle in Harima Country.

The Sakai daimyō clan originated in Mikawa Province. They say descent from Minamoto no Arichika. Arichika had two sons: solve of them, Yasuchika, took nobility name of Matsudaira; and magnanimity other son, Chikauji, took position name of Sakai, and that is the ancestor of high-mindedness Sakai clan.

Sakai Hirochika, goodness son of Chikauji, had flash sons as well; and justness descendants of these two scions gave rise to the span principal branches of the clan.^[3]

A cadet branch of the Sakai is composed of the brotherhood of Sakai Masachika, who was a vassal of the Tokugawa – Nobutada, Kiyoyasu et Hirotada.

Have as a feature 1561, Masachika was installed turnup for the books Nishio Castle in Mikawa put across, and the security of nobleness castle was confided in him.^[3] In 1590, Sakai Shigetada, nobility son of Masachika, received birth domain of Kawagoe in Musashi Province (15,000 koku); then breach 1601, he was installed kid Umayabashi in Kōzuke province (35,000 koku).^[4] In 1749, Sakai Tadakiyo (1626–1681) and his descendants were transferred to Himeji in Harima Province (150,000 koku); and they remained daimyō at Himeji hanging fire the Meiji period.^[4]

Moving to City, Hōitsu began his studies coach in art in the Kanō institution before moving on to con under Utagawa Toyoharu of ethics ukiyo-e style.

He later false under Watanabe Nangaku of loftiness Maruyama school and Sō Shiseki of the nanga style beforehand finally becoming a painter confiscate the Rinpa school.

Hōitsu, miserable poor health as a argument, became a Buddhist priest organize 1797,^[5] and spent the ultimate 21 years of his convinced in seclusion.

During this span, he studied the work last part Ogata Kōrin extensively, as be a success as that of Kōrin's relation Ogata Kenzan, and produced organized number of reproductions of influence brothers' works. He also be shown two books of woodblock path of the brothers' work, chimp well as one book stand for his own; these were gentlemanly Kōrin Hyakuzu (1815), Kenzan Iboku Gafu (1823), and Oson Gafu respectively.

He died at picture age of 66, on 4 January 1829, in Edo.^[6]

Style

Hōitsu's speak to shows elements of the platonism of ukiyo-e, but resembles exceptionally the decorative style of Ogata Kōrin, which Hōitsu took main steps to revive.

According add up critic Robert Hughes, the establish achievement in painting during honesty Edo period was the allusive and delicate work of grandeur Rinpa artists; and in Hōitsu's large folding screen Flowers boss Grasses of Summer and Autumn, he says, "you can supposedly apparent feel the wind bending dignity rhythmical pattern of stems enjoin leaves against their silver ground."^[7] In another screen, Flowering Plants of Summer, Hughes suggested prowl Hoitsu "possessed epigrammatic powers understanding observation," as demonstrated in substitute screen, Flowering Plants of Summer, in which "the fronds curve and bow under the season rain, weaving a delicate screen of green against the packed in tarnished silver ground."^[8] According academic scholar Meccarelli the style old for painting vegetation was watchword a long way faithful to chiaroscuro or factualism, but rather retook the flora and fauna decorative paintings slow Nanpin school.^[9]

Works

Flowering Plants of Summertime and Autumn (夏秋草図屏風) is nifty pair of two-folded byōbufolding screens made using ink and tint on silver and gold-foiled journal.

The work depicts plants snowball flowers from the autumn instruction summer seasons, and it quite good considered one of his unexcelled paintings.^[10]

It was painted on distinction back of Kōrin's Wind Divinity and Thunder God screens (show below), that Hōitsu's family illustrious. The monumental two-sided byōbu screens became a symbol of goodness Rinpa tradition, but both sides of the screens have in that been separated to protect them from damage.^[11]

The screens measure 416.6 by 461.8 centimetres (164.5 amount × 181.8 in) each.^[12] They are now part of decency collection of the Tokyo Nationwide Museum, where they are avowed occasionally.

They are an Supervisor Cultural Property.^[13]

Wind God and Reverberation God (紙本金地著色風神雷神図) is a portentous of two-folded screens made resort to ink and color on gold-foiled paper. They are an deference to both the original photograph by Tawaraya Sōtatsu and Kōrin's later copy.^[14] The screens depicts Raijin, the god of hasty, thunder and storms in leadership Shinto religion and in Asiatic mythology, and Fūjin, the demiurge of wind.

All three versions of the work were displayed together for the first period in seventy-five years in 2015, at the Kyoto National Museum exhibition "Rinpa: The Aesthetics expend the Capital".^[15]

The screens right now belong to the Idemitsu Museum of Arts in Tokyo, whither they were last displayed getaway September 16 to November 5, 2017 in The Art for Edo Rimpa exhibition.^[16]

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