Tokugawa Culture

Irises, from a scene of The Tale of Ise, Ogata Korin. Nezu Institute of Fine Arts (http://www.nezu-muse.or.jp/index_e.html)

Fous on visual arts

• Genroku era

• Chonin, or “townspeople” culture

• Contrast with Kitayama and Higashiyama of Medieval Japan

• Pictoral art (“soft” classification)• Yamato-e

• Kara-e

Kitayama/Higashiyama

• Ashikaga patronage• Zen influence• Ascetic, sparse

Sesshu, Winter landscapeGinkakuji-Temple of the Silver Pavilion

Higashiyama culture

Sesshu, Amanohashidate Ryoanji

What kind of picture?

• Bunsei, Japanese, active mid–15th centur, Landscape

• Sansuizu

• , Japanese

• Muromachi period, latter half of the 15th century

• Japan

• Hanging scroll; ink on paper

• 73.2 x 33 cm (28 13/16 x 13 in.) (height x width)

• Kajima Volume 1: Chapter 6, pg. 108: no. 6

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Special Chinese and Japanese Fund 05.203

Kikuchi Yosai, Japanese, 1788–1878Benkei and Minamoto no YoshitsuneBenkei to Yoshitsune

Hanging scrollJapaneseMeiji era, 1876JapanHanging scroll; ink and light color on silk136.0 x 56.4KJM2-Modern-070Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: William Sturgis Bigelow Collection 11.8887

Kara-e

“Chinese”Yamato-e

“Japanese”

Yamato-e

Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace, from the Illustrated Scrolls of the Events of the Heiji Era (Heiji monogatari emaki) Handscroll Japanese Kamakura period, second half of the 13th century; ink and color on paper 41.3 x 699.7 cm (16 1/4 x 275 1/2 in. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Fenollosa-Weld Collection 11.4000

Tokugawa-era schools

• Kano

• Tosa

• Rinpa

• Bunjinga (“literati”)

• Kyoto “Shijo”

Kano School: Song dynasty animated line and soft ink washes, catered to Tokugawa samurai elite

• Four Dragons in Mists and Clouds

• Handscroll• Chinese• Southern Song, mid-13th century• China• Ink and a touch of color on paper• 44.8 x 254.8 cm (17 5/8 x 100 5/16 in.)• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Special Chinese and Japanese Fund

14.423

Kano Hogai, Japanese, 1828–1888, Dragon Ascending the Heavens, Hiryu shoten, Meiji era, about 1887

JapanPanel; ink on paperImage: 137.9 x 62.4 cm (54 5/16 x 24 9/16 in.)KJM2-Modern-005Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Fenollosa-Weld Collection 11.4795

Taoist Immortals and Zen Masters Kano Koi Died 1636 Momoyama period, 17th century

JapanOne of a pair of six-panel folding

screens; ink and gold on paper151.2 x 357.2 cm (59 1/2 x 140

5/8 in.) (height x width)Kajima Volume 1: Chapter 7, pg.

130: no. 81 (2)Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

Fenollosa-Weld Collection 11.4233

Kano School

Emperor Kokaku Returning to the Capital over the Sanjo Bridge

Tosa Mitsusada Japanese

Edo period, late 18th–early 19th centuryJapan

One of a pair of six-panel folding screens: ink, color, and gold on

paper175.2 x 384 cm (69 x 151 3/16

in.)Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

Fenollosa-Weld Collection 11.4568

Tosa School

Waves at Matsushima, Ogata Korin Edo period,

18th century

JapanSix-panel folding screen; ink,

color, and gold on paper150.18 x 367.79 cm (59 1/8 x 144 13/16 in.) (height x width)

Kajima Volume 1: Chapter 8, pg. 140: no. 7

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Fenollosa-Weld Collection

11.4584

Rinpa School

Chinese landscape, Ikeno Taiga. (1723-1776).168.0x372.0 each.

Edo Period, 18th century.National Treasure.

A10430Gift of Mr. Dan Ino.

Bunjinga literati