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kachouga 花鳥画 | ||||||
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Lit.
bird-and-flower painting. Paintings of birds and flowers, flowers only *kakiga
花卉画, insects, plants *souchuuga
草虫画, or domestic animals reimouga れい毛画. The bird-and-flower theme
was a major one in *yamato-e
やまと絵 painting, although only those on lacquerware and metalwork survive
from before the Kamakura period. The oldest extant paintings which treat
bird-and-flower as an independent theme are the Muromachi period monochrome
ink paintings done by Zen 禅 monks, influenced by paintings of the Song and
Yuan dynasties *sougenga
宋元画. Influenced by Chinese Academic painting, professional artists in the
15c began painting polychrome depictions of a bird-and-flower on screens.
In many cases birds and flowers placed in a landscape setting progress seasonally
across the screens from right to left or vice versa *shiki
kachou-zu 四季花鳥図. Kanou school *Kanouha
狩野派 artists are credited with creating a new style by synthesizing the
ink-painting brushwork of Chinese painting with the flat, bright colors
and abundant use of gold in traditional yamato-e painting. In the
Momoyama period, bird-and-flower motifs were set against a brilliant gold
background using gold leaf and painted on large-scale screen and walls in
the interiors of residential castles (see *kinpeki
shouhekiga 金碧障壁画). Two distinct styles emerged in the Edo period:
the decorative rendering of flowers and grasses by *Rinpa
琳派 artists; and the naturalistic style by the artists of the *Maruyama
Shijouha 円山四条派, who synthesized the decorative yamato-e tradition
with a fresh view of nature. Later, woodblock print *ukiyo-e
浮世絵 artists like Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重 (also known as Andou 安藤 Hiroshige, 1797-1858) also employed bird-and
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