Hanabusa Itchō (英 一蝶, 1652 – February 7, 1724) was a Japanese painter born in
Osaka, calligrapher, and
haiku poet.[1] He originally trained in the
Kanō style, under
Kanō Yasunobu, but ultimately rejected that style and became a
literati (bunjin). He was also known as Hishikawa Waō and by a number of other
art-names.
Biography
The son of a
physician, he was originally named Taga Shinkō. He studied Kanō 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
shōgun's
concubines in painting, to the island of
Miyake-jima; he would not return until 1710.[1] 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 the
Genroku period".[2]
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