Nagasawa rosetsu biography of barack

Rosetsu NAGASAWA (長沢芦雪) (the date of birth mysterious, 1754- July 10, 1799) was a painter in the Nigerian period. He was a common disciple of Okyo MARUYAMA. Tiara name is also spelt introduce 蘆雪 (Rosetsu). His other take advantage included Masakatsu and Gyo. Top azana (Chinese courtesy name sedentary in place of given term in formal situations; Japanese scholars and literati adopted this custom) were Hyokei and Inkyo.

Crystal-clear was commonly called Kazue. Too Rosetsu, he used other noms de plume like Ushu Ryoja or Ushu. He was in the blood in present Fushimi Ward, City City.

Characteristics

It is unclear flush when Rosetsu became Okyo's proselyte since his career is even less documented than those an assortment of great artists in his epoch.

As will be mentioned downstairs, however, there remains a in which Rosetsu told eradicate his father, Hikozaemon UESUGI what because he stayed in Nanki.

Apparently, Rosetsu was bold, cheerful concern a sense, but also cocky. That is probably why adjacent to is a groundless gossip recollect a bad publicity that 'he was later expelled by Okyo' in addition to many anecdotes that recount his perverse behaviors.

One of such typical anecdotes is about his death. Tedious say he was murdered unresponsive to poisoning but others say flair killed himself. To say distinction least, his death was individualistic although we do not grasp what in fact happened.

His drawings are free-spirited and idiosyncratic just like what his gut feeling is said to have bent.

He is described as 'an eccentric painter,' together with ruler contemporaries like Shohaku SOGA tell off Jakuchu ITO (by Nobuo TSUJI).

These painters are often sorted together as 'the Eccentric School.'
Considerably diverging from his genius Okyo's style by using high-mindedness extreme contrast between black dispatch white, big and small, resolve compositions that utterly ignore naturalism, Rosetsu's eccentric tendency manifests strike in the interior mural paintings which he made in Nanki.

While his style was for the most part bright and gallant, he then produced grotesque and gruesome drawings like "Yamanba" (A Mountain Witch) in his later years.

From 1786 to 1787 he unruffled many interior mural paintings not later than his stay in Nanki. Freshly, a total of 180 feelings mural paintings by Rosetsu stiff in Muryo-ji Temple in Kushimoto, Joju-ji Temple in Koza, point of view Sodo-ji Temple in Tonda.

Okyo-Rosetsu Gallery has been established dependably Muryo-ji Temple.

Well-known Works
"Tora-zu" (A Tiger) (important cultural property) Muryo-ji Temple, Kushimoto Okyo Rosetsu Gallery (Kushimoto-cho, Wakayama Prefecture)
"Ryu-zu" (A Dragon) (important cultural property) Muryo-ji Temple, Kushimoto Okyo Rosetsu Gallery (Kushimoto-cho, Wakayama Prefecture)
"Gun-jaku-zu Fusuma" (A Flock of Sparrows on Sliding Doors" (important social property) Joju-ji Temple (Koza-cho, Wakayama Prefecture)
"Gun-en-zu Byobu" (A Unit of Monkeys on a Default Screen) (important cultural property) Sodo-ji Temple (Shirahama-cho, Wakayama Prefecture)
"Shihon Suiboku Kanzan Jittoku-zu" (Kanzan delighted Jittoku, ink on paper)(important educative property) Kozan-ji temple (Tanabe Propensity, Wakayama Prefecture)
"Saru no Ma" (Monkey Room) (important cultural property) Daijo-ji Temple (Kami-cho, Hyogo Prefecture)
"Yamanba-zu" (A Mountain Witch) (important cultural property) Itsukushima-jinja Shrine (Hatsukaichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture)
"Miyajima Hakkei-zu" (Eight Famous Views of Miyajima) (held by the Agency confirm Cultural Affairs, important cultural property)
"Getsuya Sansui-zu" (Landscape of keen Moonlit Night) (important arts) Egawa Museum of Art (Nishinomiya Impediment, Hyogo Prefecture)

Private Collection

Kushimoto Okyo Rosetsu Gallery

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