KAIJI HIGEN　絵事鄙言

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Lit. Humble Words on Matters of Painting, a late 18c polemic on painting theory by Kuwayama Gyokushuu 桑山玉洲 (1746-99). Completed in 1790 under the title of KAIEN HIGEN 絵苑鄙言 (Humble Words on the Garden of Painting); Kimura Kenkadou 木村蒹葭堂 (1736-1802) copyread the treatise and published it in 1799 under the new title. In KAIJI HIGEN Gyokushuu seeks to bolster the reform of *nanga 南画 spearheaded by Gyokushuu's friend Ike no Taiga 池大雅 (1723-76). Most notably, Gyokushuu attempts to find a Southern School *nanshuuga 南宗画 of literati artists within Japanese painting tradition, citing Soutatsu 宗達 (d.ca.1642), Ogata Kourin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716), Konoe Nobutada 近衛信尹 (1565-1614), and Shoukadou Shoujou 松花堂昭乗 (1584-1639) as exemplary artists whose work stands in contrast to the academic Northern School *hokushuuga 北宗画 styles of *Kanouha 狩野派 artists. KAIJI HIGEN had a major impact on late nanga painters such as Tanomura Chikuden 田能村竹田 (1777-1835). It is published in Sakazaki Tan 坂崎坦, ed., NIHON GARON TAIKAN 日本画論大観 1:pp.135-153.

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