Inshō Dōmoto
{{nihongo|Inshō Dōmoto|堂本 印象|Dōmoto Inshō|December 25, 1891 – September 5, 1975}} was a Japanese Nihonga artist.
Biography
His birth name was Sannosuke Dōmoto. At a young age, he started working for Heizo Tatsumura I.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tatsumuraarttextiles.com/about/tatsumura_heizoh.html|title=About Heizo 1st Tatsumura {{!}} Official Site of Tatsumura Textile, Kyoto|website=www.tatsumuraarttextiles.com|access-date=2018-10-13}} At the age of 28, he was exhibited with his work "Landscape of Fukakusa".{{Cite news|url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/landscape-of-fukakusa-southern-dinstinct-of-kyoto/FAECjJw-n6G33g?hl=en|title=Landscape of Fukakusa, southern {{sic|nolink=y|reason=error in source|Dinstinct}} of Kyoto - Domoto Insho - Google Arts & Culture|work=Google Cultural Institute|access-date=2018-10-13|language=en}} His 1961 "Symphony" is considered one of his most famous paintings.{{Cite news|url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/symphony/OgE4msrROpo7_g?hl=en|title=Symphony - Domoto Insho - Google Arts & Culture|work=Google Cultural Institute|access-date=2018-10-13|language=en}}
Dōmoto painted 600 interior screens and ceilings for Buddhist temples and shrines, amongst them Tōfuku-ji in Kyoto's Higashiyama district.{{Cite web|url=http://insho-domoto.com/insho-e.html|title=Kyoto Prefectural INSHO-DOMOTO MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS|website=insho-domoto.com|language=en|access-date=2018-10-13}} In 1933, he painted the large and vivid "Blue Dragon" ceiling painting for one of the halls. He painted it in 17 days.
He received a commission from the monastery Chishaku-in, that has a garden said to be a favourite of Sen no Rikyū, to paint new sliding doors facing it. "Ladies at Tea" from 1958 shows a more western-style painting of two women enjoying tea. The left side is a woman in kimono, while the lady to the right is in western dress. The four sliding doors were a departure from the traditional style.{{Cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2014/03/29/lifestyle/chishaku-in-a-kyoto-garden-of-deep-repose/|title=Chishaku-in: a Kyoto garden of deep repose|last=Mansfield|first=Stephen|date=2014-03-29|work=The Japan Times Online|access-date=2018-10-13|language=en-US|issn=0447-5763}}
Dōmoto received a commission from the temple Hōnen-in for two rooms. Normally the rooms had paintings by the Kano school. Two rooms that he painted in 1971 "Soft breeze approaching" depict the Pure Land. An abstract painting, it shows willows or trees swaying in the wind.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jcrafts.com/guide/eg/event/24_domoto.html|title=Must-see pioneering works from his later years. Also fusuma sliding door pictures of Honenin Temple are on view. {{!}} Event Information {{!}} JCRAFTS.com|website=www.jcrafts.com|language=ja|access-date=2018-10-13}}{{Cite web|url=http://insho-domoto.com/plan/2014/p01/index-e.html|title=Exhibitions (Kyoto Prefectural INSHO-DOMOTO MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS)|website=insho-domoto.com|language=en|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-date=2016-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913190425/http://insho-domoto.com/plan/2014/p01/index-e.html|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://souda-kyoto.jp/card_member/event/397_photo_01.html|title=京都画壇の巨匠 堂本印象の世界｜会員限定オリジナルイベント｜会員の皆さまへの情報｜そうだ 京都、行こう。|website=souda-kyoto.jp|language=ja|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-date=2014-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728171708/http://souda-kyoto.jp/card_member/event/397_photo_01.html|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|url=http://shotaiji.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2012-06-03-1|title=堂本印象―法然院: 正太寺 ・ 悟道の道|work=正太寺 ・ 悟道の道|access-date=2018-10-13|archive-date=2019-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501123119/https://shotaiji.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2012-06-03-1|url-status=dead}}
School
When he was 45 years old, he established a painting school which still exists today. One of the teachers there is Nihonga painter Masaki Ukai.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kansaiartbeat.com/event/2008/85DE.en|title=Masaki Ukai Exhibition|website=Kansai Art Beat|language=en|access-date=2018-10-13}}
The Inshō Dōmoto Art Museum in Kyoto is dedicated to his work and regularly holds exhibitions about him and other painters.{{Cite web|url=http://insho-domoto.com/plan/index-e.html|title=Past Exhibitions(Kyoto Prefectural INSHO-DOMOTO MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS)|website=insho-domoto.com|language=en|access-date=2018-10-13}}
Awards
He was made an Imperial Household Artist in 1944 and received the Order of Culture in 1961.{{Cn|date=December 2024}}
References
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External links
- [http://insho-domoto.com/index-e.html Inshō Dōmoto Art Museum Homepage]
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Category:20th-century Japanese painters