Katsura Imperial Villa (Kyoto) 1620-1663
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Katsura Imperial Villa (Kyoto) 1620-1663
Edo period/ shogun/Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)/
Prince Toshihito
(1579-1629)/ daimyo/
importance of the tea ceremony (chanoyu)
lack of ornament but
variety of textures/
integration of building and
garden/ division of
society into four distinct
classes/ chonin (or shoin)
Interior of the Katsura Palace
Miyamoto Musashi. Shrike, early seventeenth century, hanging
scroll, ink on paper
a ronin devoted to the practice of kendo/
enlightened at age 50
Hikone Screen, c. 1620-40, ink, color, and gold on paper
anticipation of developments in genre painting
Four Accomplishments or Four Leisurely Pursuits
geisha
Ogata Korin. White Plum Blossoms in the Spring, Tokugawa period, late seventeenth
to early eighteenth centuries,
screen, color on
gold paper
Rinpa School/ tarashikomi/ emphasis on pattern, dramatic contrast, and simplified motifs/ the
Kariganeya (Wild Goose)
Kano Tsunenob
u. Ascending
and Descendin
g Dragons, two of a set of three
hanging scrolls
Kano school/ inner artists (oku eshi) and official artists (omote
eshi)/ tokonoma/ emphasis on diligent
practice and tradition
Yosa Buson. Traveler and Horse Passing through a Spring Landscape, seventeenth century,
hanging scroll, ink and color on ink
Yosa Buson/ Literati Style/ dense foliage patterns with pale colors/ sencha
Yosa Buson. Selections from The Narrow Road to
the Deep North, 1779
Basho’s text
Uragami Gyokudo. Frozen Clouds, Sifted Snow, c. 1811-
12, hanging scroll, ink on paper
ideal of the pure Nanga artist/ influence of the
Chinese song dynasty/“unfinished”
oscillation between pure gesture and pure form
Uragami Gyokudo. Reading the “Book of
Changes” in the Cloudy Mountains, hanging scroll,
ink on paper
Okamoto Toyohiko. Moored Boats in Autumn, early nineteenth century, detail from a pair of six-panel screens; ink and light color on paper
aesthetic principle of partial disclosure