- Hanabusa Itchō
Hanabusa Itchō (英一蝶) (1652-1724) was a Japanese painter, calligrapher, and
haiku poet. He originally trained in the Kanō style, underKanō Yasunobu , but ultimately rejected that style and became aliterati ("bunjin"). He was also known as Hishikawa Waō and by a number of otherart-name s.He was exiled in 1698, for parodying one of the shogun's concubines in painting, to the island of Miyakejima; he would not return until 1710. That year, in
Edo , the artist would formally take the name Hanabusa Itchō.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 Kanō and
ukiyo-e , is said to have been "more poetic and less formalistic than the Kanō school, and typical of the 'bourgeois' spirit of theGenroku period" Frederic, Louis (2002). "Japan Encyclopedia." Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.] .Hanabusa studied poetry under the master
Matsuo Bashō , and is said to have been an excellent calligrapher as well.References
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Hanabusa Itchō II - son and pupil of Itchō
*"nanga" - "literati painting"
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