Mid Edo Period (18th c.)／Color on gold-leaf paper, eight-fold screen
89.0 x 320.0 cm
SUMMARY
An eight-panel folding screen made to relatively small dimensions. On the bottom right of the screen, there is a circular seal which seems to read “Taisei” (associated with Rimpa school founder Sotatsu), though it is difficult to identify right away. In this piece, the design of the wave crests (which can also be seen in Waves at Matsushima, painted by both Tawaraya Sotatsu and Ogata Korin) is simply and rhythmically painted, conveying a sense of movement in the waves. The shape of the waves is depicted by painting a dark ultramarine just outside the waves to highlight their contours, coloring the crests with white pigment, and finishing off by fine-tuning the splashes and swell of the waves with lines of gold paint.
ARTIST
Rinpa School
A school founded by Tawaraya Sotatsu, who was active from the Momoyama to the early Edo period. In the middle of the Edo period, Ogata Korin further developed Sotatsu’s style, perfecting it in its ability to show decorative beauty all the more clearly. Passed down to Sakai Hoitsu and his student Suzuki Kiitsu in the late Edo period, it later came to be known as the Rimpa school. Sakai Hoitsu admired Korin’s style, and left behind decorative work filled with poetic sentiment. The scope of the Rimpa school’s impact is broad, as it pursued and developed its gorgeous and decorative beauty and came to occupy an important position in the history of early modern period painting.
List of artworks by the same artist
INFORMATION
Sunday, August 25 - Sunday, September 29, 2019
This Is Japan In Kyoto From The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection The Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
Saturday, March 24 - Sunday, May 27, 2018
OEDO EXHIBITION NAGASAKI Nagasaki Prefectual Art Museum (Nagasaki, Japan)
Saturday, November 15 - Sunday, January 18, 2015
The Quintessence of Japanese Paintings Takasaki Tower Museum of Art (Gunma, Japan)
Wednesday, November 3 - Sunday, November 28, 2004
Treasures of Japanese Art Exhibition Kagawa History Museum (Kagawa, Japan)
Friday, June 29 - Sunday, September 16, 2001
Monet & Japan Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, Australia)
Friday, March 9 - Monday, June 11, 2001
Monet & Japan National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
Friday, May 1 - Tuesday, June 30, 1998
Treasures of Japanese Arts and Crafts—400 Years of Japanese Art from the Momoyama Period to Modernity National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan)
Friday, February 10 - Sunday, April 16, 1995
Treasures of Japanese Art: Edo Period 1615-1868 La Pedrera / The House Mila (Barcelona, Spain)
Friday, September 23 - Sunday, January 22, 1995
Treasures of Japanese Art: Edo Period 1615-1868 Juan March Foundation (Madrid, Spain)
Sunday, January 26 - Sunday, March 22, 1992
Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection Kunstlerhaus (Vienna, Austria)
Wednesday, September 26 - Sunday, December 9, 1990
Treasures of Japanese Art National Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Stockholm, Sweden)
Thursday, February 22 - Sunday, April 1, 1990
Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection Sao Paulo Art Museum (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
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