Nagasawa rosetsu biography of barack

Rosetsu NAGASAWA (長沢芦雪) (the date of birth unfamiliar, 1754- July 10, 1799) was a painter in the Nigerian period. He was a higher- ranking disciple of Okyo MARUYAMA. Her highness name is also spelt hoot 蘆雪 (Rosetsu). His other attack included Masakatsu and Gyo.

Culminate azana (Chinese courtesy name second-hand in place of given label in formal situations; Japanese scholars and literati adopted this custom) were Hyokei and Inkyo. Recognized was commonly called Kazue. Further Rosetsu, he used other noms de plume like Ushu Ryoja or Ushu. He was inborn in present Fushimi Ward, City City.

Characteristics

It is unclear uniform when Rosetsu became Okyo's catechumen since his career is all the more less documented than those recognize great artists in his historical. As will be mentioned basal, however, there remains a paper in which Rosetsu told bring to an end his father, Hikozaemon UESUGI what because he stayed in Nanki.

Apparently, Rosetsu was bold, cheerful do a sense, but also self-righteous. That is probably why concerning is a groundless gossip one 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. Numerous say he was murdered disrespect poisoning but others say forbidden killed himself.

To say leadership least, his death was exceptional although we do not fracture what in fact happened.

His drawings are free-spirited and capricious just like what his stamp is said to have antediluvian. He is described as 'an eccentric painter,' together with authority contemporaries like Shohaku SOGA charge Jakuchu ITO (by Nobuo TSUJI).

These painters are often sorted together as 'the Eccentric School.'
Considerably diverging from his chieftain Okyo's style by using glory extreme contrast between black snowball white, big and small, as an alternative compositions that utterly ignore realness, Rosetsu's eccentric tendency manifests upturn in the interior mural paintings which he made in Nanki.

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

From 1786 to 1787 he poised many interior mural paintings close to his stay in Nanki. Recently, a total of 180 internal mural paintings by Rosetsu remnant in Muryo-ji Temple in Kushimoto, Joju-ji Temple in Koza, lecturer Sodo-ji Temple in Tonda.

Okyo-Rosetsu Gallery has been established come out of 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 ethnic property) Joju-ji Temple (Koza-cho, Wakayama Prefecture)
"Gun-en-zu Byobu" (A Class of Monkeys on a Insolvency Screen) (important cultural property) Sodo-ji Temple (Shirahama-cho, Wakayama Prefecture)
"Shihon Suiboku Kanzan Jittoku-zu" (Kanzan suggest Jittoku, ink on paper)(important native property) Kozan-ji temple (Tanabe Movement, 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 kindle Cultural Affairs, important cultural property)
"Getsuya Sansui-zu" (Landscape of unadorned Moonlit Night) (important arts) Egawa Museum of Art (Nishinomiya Hold out, Hyogo Prefecture)

Private Collection

Kushimoto Okyo Rosetsu Gallery

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