Submit a bio  

Artist Biography & Facts
Sakai Hoitsu

Sakai Hoitsu (1761 - 1828) was active/lived in Japan.  Sakai Hoitsu is known for Scroll painting and drawing of birds, flowers, landscapes.

Sakai Hoitsu (1761–1828) was a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school. He is known for having revived the style and popularity of Ogata Korin, and for having created a number of reproductions of Korin's work.

Hoitsu was born in Edo; his father was the lord (daimyo) of Himeji Castle in Harima Province.

The Sakai daimyo clan originated in Mikawa Province. They claim descent from Minamoto no Arichika. Arichika had two sons: one of them, Yasuchika, took the name of Matsudaira; and the other son, Chikauji, took the name of Sakai, and this is the ancestor of the Sakai clan. Sakai Hirochika, the son of Chikauji, had two sons as well; and the descendants of these two sons gave rise to the two principal branches of the clan.

A cadet branch of the Sakai is composed of the descendants of Sakai Masachika, who was a vassel of the Tokugawa – Nobutada, Kiyoyasu et Hirotada. In 1561, Masachika was installed at Nishio Castle in Mikawa province, and the security of the castle was   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3473 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 29 auction lots for Sakai Hoitsu (of which 18 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Sakai Hoitsu as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Sakai Hoitsu in 0 of its research Essays. Sakai Hoitsu has 0 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Sakai Hoitsu available:    Suzuki Kiitsu,  Hokuba Teisai,  Nagazawa Rosetsu,  Ekaku Hakuin,  Kazuhiko Fukuoji,  Kyosai Kawanabe,  Ito Jakuchu,  Shibata Zeshin,  Gaho Hashimoto,  Yujin Nakaji,  Soo-Keun Park,  Nanpu Katayama,  Shoen Uemura,  Kazu Wakita,  Kiyoshi Yamashita,  Shinichi Saito,  Seison Maeda,  Morikazu Kumagai,  Shiko Munakata,  Sumio Goto,  Koji Kinutani,  Taikan Yokoyama,  Takeshi Hayashi,  Hitone Noma



Copyright © 1999-2024 askART.com and underlying auction houses. All Rights Reserved. Digital copying of these images and content strictly prohibited; violators will be subject to the law including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Facts about Sakai Hoitsu

   Sakai Hoitsu  Born:  1761 - Edo, Japan
Died:   1828 - Japan
Known for:  Scroll painting and drawing of birds, flowers, landscapes
Name variants:  Hoitsu Sakai

Biography from the Archives of askART

Sakai Hoitsu (1761–1828) was a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school. He is known for having revived the style and popularity of Ogata Korin, and for having created a number of reproductions of Korin's work.

Hoitsu was born in Edo; his father was the lord (daimyo) of Himeji Castle in Harima Province.

The Sakai daimyo clan originated in Mikawa Province. They claim descent from Minamoto no Arichika. Arichika had two sons: one of them, Yasuchika, took the name of Matsudaira; and the other son, Chikauji, took the name of Sakai, and this is the ancestor of the Sakai clan. Sakai Hirochika, the son of Chikauji, had two sons as well; and the descendants of these two sons gave rise to the two principal branches of the clan.

A cadet branch of the Sakai is composed of the descendants of Sakai Masachika, who was a vassel of the Tokugawa – Nobutada, Kiyoyasu et Hirotada. In 1561, Masachika was installed at Nishio Castle in Mikawa province, and the security of the castle was confided in him. In 1590, Sakai Shigetada, the son of Masachika, received the domain of Kawagoe in Musashi Province (15,000 koku); then in 1601, he was installed at Umayabashi in Kozuke province (35,000 koku). In 1749, Sakai Tadakiyo (1626–1681) and his descendants were transferred to Himeji in Harima Province (150,000 koku); and they remained daimyo at Himeji until the Meiji period.

Moving to Kyoto, Hoitsu began his studies in art in the Kano school before moving on to study under Utagawa Toyoharu of the ukiyo-e style. He later studied under Watanabe Nangaku of the Maruyama school and So Shiseki of the Nanga* style before finally becoming a painter of the Rinpa school.

Hoitsu became a Buddhist priest in 1797, and spent the last 21 years of his life in seclusion. During this time, he studied the work of Ogata Korin extensively, as well as that of Korin's brother Ogata Kenzan, and produced a number of reproductions of the brothers' works. He also produced two books of woodblock prints of the brothers' work, as well as one book of his own; these were titled Korin Hyakuzu (1815), Kenzan Iboku Gafu (1823), and Oson Gafu respectively.

Hoitsu's style shows elements of the realism of ukiyo-e, but resembles particularly the decorative style of Ogata Korin, which Hoitsu took major steps to revive.

According to critic Robert Hughes, the core achievement in painting during the Edo period was the allusive and delicate work of the Rinpa artists; and in Hoitsu's large folding screen Flowers and Grasses of Summer and Autumn, he says, "you can almost feel the wind bending the rhythmical pattern of stems and leaves against their silver ground."

In another screen, Flowering Plants of Summer, Hughes suggested that Hoitsu "possessed epigrammatic powers of observation," as demonstrated in another screen, Flowering Plants of Summer, in which "the fronds bend and bow under the summer rain, weaving a delicate lattice of green against the now tarnished silver ground."

According to scholar Meccarelli the style used for painting vegetation was not faithful to chiaroscuro or naturalism, but rather retook the flora and fauna decorative paintings of Nanpin school.

Source:
"Sakai Hoitsu," Wikipedia, April 2017

* For more in-depth information about these terms and others, see AskART.com. Glossary http://www.askart.com/AskART/lists/Art_Definition.aspx


** If you discover credit omissions or have additional information to add, please let us know at [email protected].

Share an image of the Artist: [email protected].
Top