Japanese Painting

Three Heroes of Three Kingdoms by Sekkan Sakurai

Painting (絵画) is one of the oldest Japanese art, and the most popular one. Main Painting Schools are: Suibokuga, Kanō, Rimpa, Tosa-ha, Nanga and Shijo. It has been influenced by Chinese art and Zen Buddhism, as well as by Western art.

Japanese interpretations and painters may be studied in the following periods:

• Ancient Japan

Monochrome pottery, cord-impressed designs (Jomon) and lacquer objects.

• Nara period

Painting in this period emulated Chinese T'ang prototypes.

• Heian and Kamakura periods

Tokiwa Mitsunaga (ca. last half of the 12th century) Narrative Handscrolls.

• Muromachi period

Josetsu (如拙) (1405 – 1423), the father of Japanese ink painting.

Sesso Toyo (1420-1506)

• Azuchi-Momoyama period

Kanō Eitoku (狩野 永徳) (1543 - 1590), prominent patriarch of the Kanō School.

• Edo period

Tawaraya Sōtatsu (俵屋宗達) (c. 1600s), co-founder of the Rimpa School.

Sekkan Sakurai (1715-1790)

Sukoku Toryuo (1730-1804)

Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎) (1760 — 1849), Ukiyo-e (浮世絵) genre painter and printmaker. "Behind the Great Wave at Kanagawa" (c.1829) is one of the most renowned Japanese paintings.

Keibun Matsumura (1779-1843)

by Taikan Yokoyama

• Meiji period

Shoen Uemura (1875-1949), female painter.

• Taisho period

Taikan Yokoyama (1868-1958), member of the samurai class of the Mito clan.

• Showa period

Kaii Higashiyama (1908-1999)

Yuki Ogura (小倉遊亀) (1895 - 2000), traditional female painter.

• Contemporary period

Shinoda Toko (篠田桃紅) (b. 1913), female painter, sumi (ink) paintings and prints.

Takashi Murakami (村上隆) (1963 - )

See also

• Gallery of Japanese Painting

External links

• Ancient Japan Gallery.
• Gallery of Japanese Painting
• A brief historical context.
• Japanese painting