Samples & Related Artists

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

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 20 auction lots for Hanabusa Itcho (of which 13 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 Hanabusa Itcho as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Hanabusa Itcho in 0 of its research Essays. Hanabusa Itcho has 3 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 4 similar (related) artists for Hanabusa Itcho available:    Yamamoto Baiitsu,  Nagazawa Rosetsu,  Mori Sosen,  Shibata Zeshin