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(★)(英文版「もっと知りたい伊藤若冲 生涯と作品」改訂版)(Translated by Michael Brase)(In 1760, when the Japanese painter Ito Jakuchu was working on his magnum opus, ´Colorful Realm of Living Beings´, he stated that it would probably take a thousand years for his paintings to be properly appreciated. This declaration was an expression of his unshakable confidence in the timeless artistic value of his work. As it turned out, however, the Japanese art world would long treat Jakuchu as an eccentric, not as a principal figure in the art history of Japan. ／Recently, however, this view of Jakuchu has begun to crumble. With the holding of large Jakuchu exhibitions in Japan and abroad, foreign art lovers and young Japanese untainted by older preconceptions have discovered a new freshness in Jakuchu´s extraordinarily minute depictions of plants and animals. They have discovered that Jakuchu can have a bewitching effect on modern sensibilities. ／Jakuchu lived during the eighteenth century, the golden age of art in the Edo period (1603-1868), a time when some of the greatest artistic names vied for originality in the pictorial arts. Born into a family of vegetable retailers, Jakuchu developed an interest in painting and began his self-education in the art by studying the Kano style then predominant in Japan as well as Chinese classics from the Yuan and Ming dynasties. He also studied the meticulously depicted bird-and-flower paintings of the Qing dynasty, and taking nature as his teacher, he began making thoroughgoing sketches of natural phenomena. He eventually established his own richly colored style of painting that portrayed the multitudinous plants and animals of the natural world. This style is firmly based on the Japanese art of his period and geographical area, but it also, as the author states, ´marks a certain high point in the history of East Asian painting.´ ／The present book includes full-color illustrations of Jakuchu´s lifework (the thirty scrolls making up ´Colorful Realm of Living Beings)´ as well as other important paintings, arranged chronologically and accompanied by commentary from a variety of perspectives. ◆Sato Yasuhiro (佐藤康宏) was born in Miyazaki prefecture in 1955. He has served as a technical official at the Tokyo National Museum and the Fine Arts Division of the Agency for Cultural Affairs. He retired from his position as Professor at the University of Tokyo in March 2020. His principal areas of research are genre painting from the end of the Muromachi period in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the Edo period in the seventeenth century as well as Edo-period painters such as Jakuchu, Soga Shohaku, and ´nanga´ artists. Among his published works in Japanese are ´Jakuchu Shohaku (Jakuchu and Shohaku ; Shogakukan)´, ´Yuna-zu : Shisen no dorama (Bathhouse Girls : Dramas Hidden in Their Gazes ; Heibonsha, Chikuma Shobo)´, ´Utamaro to Sharaku (Utamaro and Sharaku ; Shibundo)´, ´Urakami Gyokudo (Urakami Gyokudo ; Shinchosha)´, etc.) |
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