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Hanabusa Itcho

Hanabusa Itcho (1652 - 1724) was active/lived in Japan.  Hanabusa Itcho is known for Painting, calligraphy, haiku poetry.

Hanabusa Itcho (1652 – February 7, 1724) was a Japanese painter, calligrapher*, and haiku* poet. He originally trained in the Kano style, under Kano Yasunobu, but ultimately rejected that style and became a literati (bunjin). He was also known as Hishikawa Wao and by a number of other art-names.

Born in Kyoto and the son of a physician, he was originally named Taga Shinko. He studied Kano 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 shogun'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 Itcho.

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 Kano and ukiyo-e, is said to have been "more poetic and less formalistic than the Kano   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1482 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Hanabusa Itcho

   Hanabusa Itcho  Born:  1652 - Kyota, Japan
Died:   1724
Known for:  Painting, calligraphy, haiku poetry
Name variants:  Taga Shinko, Hishikawa Wao

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Hanabusa Itcho (1652 – February 7, 1724) was a Japanese painter, calligrapher*, and haiku* poet. He originally trained in the Kano style, under Kano Yasunobu, but ultimately rejected that style and became a literati (bunjin). He was also known as Hishikawa Wao and by a number of other art-names.

Born in Kyoto and the son of a physician, he was originally named Taga Shinko. He studied Kano 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 shogun'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 Itcho.

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 Kano and ukiyo-e, is said to have been "more poetic and less formalistic than the Kano school, and typical of the "bourgeois" spirit of the Genroku period".

Hanabusa was the master of the later painter Sawaki Suushi.

Hanabusa studied poetry under the master Matsuo Basho, and is said to have been an excellent calligrapher as well.


Source:
"Hanabusa Itcho," Wikipedia, Nov. 2018

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