katsura imperial villa (kyoto) 1620-1663

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