Famous artists and haiku poets

Katsushika Hokusai who created the famous great wave paintingKatsushika Hokusai self-portraitKatsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) must be the most famous Japanese woodblock printing (ukiyo-e) artist around the world. So, do you know how to pronounce "Katsushika Hokusai"?https://youtu.be/xULcUEBEo7gHis art works of images including The Great Off Kanagawa (The Great Wave) and other prints of "Thirty-Six Views of Mount. Fuji" influenced Western artists Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas...

Biography of Utagawa(Ando) Hiroshige(1797-1858) Portrait of Utagawa Hiroshige by the third Utagawa Toyokuni A son of fire fighter  The outstanding ukiyo-e artist, Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige<歌川（安藤） 広重> was born in 1797 as the son of the official fire fighter Ando Gen-emon. His landscape woodblock printings took many Edo citizens all over Japan. However, he was not from the class of tradesmen and artisans.   Ando family belonged to the class of samurai.  The...

The biography and woodblock prints of Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865)Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞) was the one of the most popular ukiyo-e artists at the end of the Tokugawa period as well as Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳), among the disciples of the first Toyokuni (豊国). In contrast to his younger disciple, he was a serious person and always neatly dressed. Sponsored LinksMaximum number of works in all of the ukiyo-e artists He was born as a son of a timber wholesaler who run a ferry. Bu...

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) was one of the ukiyo-e artists who worked extensively as a member of Utagawa School, along with Hiroshige (広重) and Kunisada (国貞）. Self portrait of Utagawa Kuniyoshi He established a unique world not found in other ukiyo-e artists. His talent of paint could be compared to Katsushika Hokusai(葛飾北斎）. And thorough the life, he was a totally opposite person to Kunisada.BiographyLong early days Kuniyoshi was born as a son of a dyein...

Biography of Kitagawa Utamaro(1753?-1806)When talking about portraying beautiful women of ukiyo-e prints, we can't describe it without touching on Kitagawa Utamaro (喜多川歌麿). He developed the new ways to draw Edo women and it made him as a maestro of bijinga(printing of beautiful women portrait).  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({});  The time of Kitagawa Toyoaki(北川豊章)It is unclear when and where he was born exactly but the most experts think his bir...

Toshusai Sharaku(東洲斎写楽)It was only ten months between 1794 and 1795 that Toshusai Sharaku worked as an ukiyo-e painter. But in the meantime, he has left over 140 kabuki actor portraits. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Mysterious ukiyo-e artistAlthough many people made various theories who Sharaku was, no one can't find any definitive proof. Only limited people, such as the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo (蔦屋重三郎)  who also published the pictures of Kitagawa ...

Kawase Hasui(1883-1957)Kawase Hasui(川瀬巴水)  was a modern Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print(shin-hanga) artist who played an active part in the early 1900s and the middle. Unfortunately, comparing to Katushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige, he has not been so well-known in Japan. But he left 467 works of woodcut prints and received high praise from the other countries.  Kawase Hasui's biography Kawase Bunjiro(川瀬文治郎) was born in Shiba, Tokyo in 1883 and had a real nam...

Matsuo Basho's famous haiku poems Portrait of Matsuo Basho from "Hokusai Manga", by Katsushika Hokusai Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) made about 1000 haiku poems through the lifetime, traveling around Japan. His writing “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” is the most famous haiku collection in Japan.Among the haiku poems, I would like to introduce you the 10 famous examples of his "Sabi" works including "old pond and frog", "c...

Kobayashi Issa's haiku poems <img width="640" height="414" src="https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/No.050-1024x663.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/No.050.jpg?resize=1024%2C663&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i2.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/No.050.jpg?res...

Yosa Buson's haiku poems <img width="500" height="500" src="https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Yosa_Buson.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Yosa_Buson.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https://i1.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Yosa_Buson.jpg?resize=150%2C150&...

Masaoka Shiki's haiku poems <img width="424" height="600" src="https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/424px-Masaoka_Shiki.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/424px-Masaoka_Shiki.jpg?w=424&amp;ssl=1 424w, https://i2.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/424px-Masao...

Takahama Kyoshis haiku poems <img width="408" height="428" src="https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Takahama_Kyoshi.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Takahama_Kyoshi.jpg?w=408&amp;ssl=1 408w, https://i0.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Takahama_Kyoshi.jpg?res...

Kawahigashi Hekigoto's haiku poems <img width="404" height="599" src="https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/92db2ff04266ade08244328f410195b8.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/92db2ff04266ade08244328f410195b8.jpg?w=404&amp;ssl=1 404w, https://i1.wp.com/www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-co...

“The folding screen painting of Cypress“ Kano Eitoku (1543-1590) was active painter in the Azuchi-Momoyama period, the end of the Japanese Age of the Civil War. As his artworks, “The folding screen painting of Cypress” is famous as well as “The folding screen painting of Chinese lions “Related Post“The folding screen painting of Chinese lions “ by Kano EitokuHowever, he originally drew this picture on a sliding door instead of a screen. The sliding door was used...

“The folding screen painting of Chinese lions “（唐獅子図屏風絵） <a href="https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kano_Eitoku_002.jpg" data-elementor-open-lightbox="yes" data-elementor-lightbox-title="Kano_Eitoku_002"> <img width="640" height="322" src="https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kano_E...

“The folding screen painting of Chinese lions “（唐獅子図屏風絵） <a href="https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kano_Eitoku_002.jpg" data-elementor-open-lightbox="yes" data-elementor-lightbox-title="Kano_Eitoku_002"> <img width="640" height="322" src="https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Kano_E...

"Landscapes of Autumn and Winter" Landscapes of Autumn and Winter (Autumn)  Landscapes of Autumn and Winter (Winter) Sesshu (1420‐1506) was a Zen priest in the late period of the Muromachi Period. And he established Japanese ink paintings (a kind of sumi-e painting, an art expressing only with the light and shade of black ink). The sumi-e painting is one of the "Sabi" world in Japanese culture. Related PostWabi and Sabi, Japanese unique sense of art Ses...