Hanabusa Itchō
{{short description|Japanese artist}}
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{{nihongo|Hanabusa Itchō|英 一蝶||1652 – February 7, 1724}} was a Japanese painter born in Osaka, calligrapher, and haiku poet.{{Cite web |title=Hanabusa Itchō {{!}} Ukiyo-e, Edo Period, Woodblock Prints {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hanabusa-Itcho |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}} He originally trained in the Kanō style, under Kanō Yasunobu, but ultimately rejected that style and became a literati (bunjin). He was also known as Hishikawa Waō and by a number of other art-names.
Biography
The son of a physician, he was originally named Taga Shinkō. He studied Kanō painting, but soon abandoned the school and his master to form his own style, which would come to be known as the Hanabusa school.
He was exiled in 1698, for parodying one of the shōgun's concubines in painting, to the island of Miyake-jima; he would not return until 1710. That year, in Edo, the artist would formally take the name Hanabusa Itchō.
Most of his paintings depicted typical urban life in Edo, and were approached from the perspective of a literati painter. His style, in-between the Kanō and ukiyo-e, is said to have been "more poetic and less formalistic than the Kanō school, and typical of the "bourgeois" spirit of the Genroku period".Frederic, Louis (2002). "Japan Encyclopedia." Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Hanabusa was the master of the later painter Sawaki Suushi.{{Cite web|url=http://pinktentacle.com/2008/02/edo-period-monster-paintings-by-sawaki-suushi/|title=Edo-period monster paintings by Sawaki Suushi ~ Pink Tentacle}}
Hanabusa studied poetry under the master Matsuo Bashō, and is said to have been an excellent calligrapher as well. His friends included the poets Matsuo Bashō and Enomoto Kikaku.
His work is held in several institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston,{{Cite web|title=The Death of the Historical Buddha|url=https://collections.mfa.org/objects/24708/the-death-of-the-historical-buddha;jsessionid=5948C3659E2199EA6D427E797DC027ED|access-date=2021-02-03|website=collections.mfa.org|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Voon|first=Claire|date=2016-08-19|title=MFA Boston Publicly Conserves 18th-Century Buddhist Painting Masterpiece|url=https://hyperallergic.com/317473/mfa-boston-publicly-conserves-18th-century-buddhist-painting-masterpiece/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=An Ancient Japanese Scroll Gets Pieced Back Together|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/ancient-japanese-scroll-conservation-lab/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Vice.com|language=en}} the Philadelphia Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Children at Play|url=https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/60769.html?mulR=1777841705%7C1|access-date=2021-02-03|website=www.philamuseum.org}} the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=Otafuku {{!}} LACMA Collections|url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/191125|access-date=2021-02-03|website=collections.lacma.org}} the Smithsonian Libraries,{{Cite web|last=Hanabusa|first=Itchō|title=Gunchō gaei|url=https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/gunchoygaei00hana|access-date=2021-02-03|website=library.si.edu}} the Israel Museum ,{{Cite web|title=Hanabusa Itcho, Japan, 1652-1724 {{!}} The Israel Museum, Jerusalem|url=https://www.imj.org.il/en/artistec/hanabusa-itcho-japan-1652-1724|access-date=2021-02-03|website=www.imj.org.il|language=en}} the Suntory Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=Rural genre scenes: Collection Database|url=https://www.suntory.com/sma/collection/data/detail?lang=en&id=627|access-date=2021-02-03|website=SUNTORY MUSEUM of ART|language=en}} the Seattle Art Museum,{{Cite web|title=Works – Hanabusa Itcho – Artists – eMuseum|url=http://art.seattleartmuseum.org/people/687/hanabusa-itcho;jsessionid=C88DFFFD6821A7D039870492C30D1AB2/objects|access-date=2021-02-03|website=art.seattleartmuseum.org}} the Museum of Cultural History Oslo,{{cite web|title=Hanabusa Itcho - Museum of Cultural History|url=https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/historical-museum/exhibitions-archive/a-floating-world/museum-of-cultural-history-collections/hanabusa-itcho/index.html|access-date=2021-02-03|website=www.khm.uio.no|language=en}} the University of Michigan Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=Exchange: Mt. Fuji in Autumn|url=https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/20956/view|access-date=2021-02-03|website=exchange.umma.umich.edu}} the Brooklyn Museum,{{Cite web|title=Brooklyn Museum|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/127227|access-date=2021-02-03|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}} the Minneapolis Institute of Art,{{Cite web|title=Parinirvana of Sakyamuni, the Historical Buddha, Hanabusa Itchō ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art|url=http://collections.artsmia.org/art/117238/parinirvana-of-sakyamuni-the-historical-buddha-hanabusa-itcho|access-date=2021-02-03|website=collections.artsmia.org}} the National Museum of Korea,{{Cite web|title=Genre Painting {{!}} Collection Database|url=http://https/%3A%2F%2Fwww.museum.go.kr%2Fsite%2Feng%2Frelic%2Fsearch%2Fview%3FrelicId%3D6379|access-date=2021-02-03|website=NATIONAL MUSEUM OF KOREA}} and the British Museum.{{Cite web|title=Collections Online {{!}} British Museum|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG2235|access-date=2021-02-03|website=www.britishmuseum.org}}
See also
- Hanabusa Itchō II – son and pupil of Itchō
- nanga – "literati painting"
Notes
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References
- Lane, Richard. (1978). Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780192114471}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5246796 OCLC 5246796]
External links
{{Commons category|Hanabusa Itcho}}
- [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/153737 Bridge of dreams: the Mary Griggs Burke collection of Japanese art], a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Hanabusa Itchō (see index)
- [https://jyuluck-do.com/profile_hanabusa_iccho.html Short biography of Hanabusa Itcho - Jyuluck-Do Corporation]
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