ArH 209 -- History of Japanese Art -- Study Sheet 5: Late Feudal

One-hundred year war period (Sengoku jidai): 1467-1568; (Ônin War 1467-77)

Castles decorated by Kanô school painters

Kanô school, painters to the daimyo: Kanô Eitoku (1543-90), grandson of founder

(Motonobu); Kanô Tanyû; (Kanô Mitsunobu and others)

Monochromatic style/themes, blue and gold style/themes, genre themes

Genre painting (fuzokuga): scenes of urban life (rakuchû rakugai-zu), figures, etc.)

See "Scenes In and Out of the Capital," UOMA (showing Kyoto).

Daimyo
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582)-------------------
(Azuchi castle, eastshore of Lake Biwa,
decorated by Kanô Eitoku)

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598)---------

1600, battle of Sekigahara
Castles at Osaka (destroyed 1615 by
Ieyasu) and Momoyama (SE of Kyoto).

Jurakudai mansion in Kyoto.

Decorated by Kanô Eitoku and others.

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616)------------ shogun title revived, 1603
(early Edo period)

Sen Rikyû (1522-1591); tea master
to daimyo
Himeji Castle 1601-9; tenshu; (honmaru)
Inland Sea, west of Osaka, made for

son-in-law of Ieyasu (Ikeda Terumasa)

after defeat of Hideyoshi.

Shoin architecture: see study sheet.

Noh theater, bunraku, kabuki

Byôbu Shoji

Nijô Castle, ca. 1625 (early Edo period), Kyoto ("2nd St.") : (Ohiroma) GreatAudience Hall,

paintings by the Kanô school.

Katsura Imperial Villa (Katsura Rikyu). southwest Kyoto: Begun 1620 for Prince (Toshihito). Sukiya style structures, including Shoin and teahouses: Old Shoin (with moon-viewing platform), Middle Shoin, Music Room, New Shoin. Interior paintings by Kanô Tanyu.

Hasegawa TÔHAKU (1539-1610)

Rimpa school: Tawaraya SÔTATSU (active 1600-40), Honami KÔETSU ((1558-1637), calligrapher;

Rimpa later generation: Ôgata Kôrin (1658-1716)

tarashikomi technique

Yamato-e revival, emaki motifs, classical literature, poetry anthologies

Namban painting (scenes of foreigners)

"Western-style painting" (Yôfuga)

Ceramics: Oribe ware, Raku ware

Illustrations:

229, 230. Himeji Castle, 1601-9. Near Osaka. Distant view, plan. Maze, tenshu, etc.

231. Shoin style building. Note important features labeled.

233. Great Audience Hall, Nijô Castle. (Ca. 1625) Momoyama period. Paintings by Kanô school.

234, 235, 236, 237, 238. Katsura Villa. 1620-24. Momoyama Period. Shoin buildings (see above), Tea houses, ponds.

Colorplate 39 and illus. 241. Central room (Hôjô) of subtemple Jukôin Daitoku-ji, with paintings by Kanô Eitoku. Muromachi period (1566). Ink on fusuma panels. Plum trees, Pine Tree and Crane. Each panel 70 inches hight (175 cm.)

Colorplate 40 Chinese Lions, by Kanô Eitoku. Momoyama Period. Six-panel byôbu screen. Pigments, gold leaf , and ink on paper.

242. Cypress, by Kanô Eitoku. Momoyama Period. Eight-panel byôbu screen, originally part of a set of byôbu. Pigments, gold leaf , and ink on paper.170X 460 cm.

Colorplates 41--43, illus. 243 Onjô-ji (at Lake Biwa), Guest Hall. Fusuma panels by Kanô Mitsunobu. Momoyama Period. Plum Blossoms and Camellias; Pines and Cherry Blossoms; Cedars and Flowering Cherry Trees; Winter Landcape with Waterfall. Pigments, gold leaf , and ink on paper.

Colorplate 38. Scenes of urban life (rakuchû rakugai-zu). Pigments and color on a byôbu screen. no slide

239. Pair of six-panel Scenes of urban life (rakuchû rakugai-zu). ByKanô Eitoku. Ca. 1550. Ink, pigments and gold leaf on paper. Each screen 1.59 X 3.64m. Known as the Uesugi screens.

Colorplate 48. So-called Funaki screens. Scenes of urban life (rakuchû rakugai-zu). Pigments, gold leaf, and color on a byôbu screen. no slide. use 239

253 (comparison of all urban life screens)

245. Gibbon Reaching for the Moon, by (Hasegawa) TÔHAKU. Momoyama period. Ink on paper, pair of fusuma

246 Pine Forest, by (Hasegawa) TÔHAKU. Momoyama period. Ink on paper, pair of byôbu.

Colorplate 45. Maple Tree, by (Hasegawa) TÔHAKU. Momoyama period. Pigments, gold leaf, and ink on paper. Fusuma panels.

249. Frontispiece for Lotus Sutra dedicated by Taira family (see also colorplate 23) Deer, by SÔTATSU. Momoyama period. Color and gold on paper hand scroll.

(251. SÔTATSU. Fan paintings.)

250 Deer Scroll, by KÔETSU, calligraphy; and SÔTATSU, painting. Momoyama Period. Ink and gold and silver paint on a paper handscroll. Seattle Art Museum.

252. God of Thunder, God of Wind, by SÔTATSU. Two-panel byôbu screens. Edo period. Color and gold and silver paint on paper.

Colorplate 47. Pine Islands (Matsushima), by (Tawaraya) SÔTATSU. Momoyama-Edo period. Pigments, gold, and ink on paper. Pair of six-panel byôbu. Freer Gallery, Smithsonian, Wash. D.C.

254. Namban byôbu screens. Anonymous. Momoyama Period.

255. Genre byôbu screens. Anonymous. Momoyama-Edo period.

257. Lobed dish. Oribe (Mino) ware. Momoyama Period.

260. Tea bowl, called Mt. Fuji. Raku ware. By Kôetsu. Momoyama period.