Reconsidering reality in the History of Japanese Paintings

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22520098
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Aesthetics/Art history
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: ITO Daisuke 名古屋大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (00282541)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 美術史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Since YASHIRO Yukio pointed out that the characteristics of Japanese Art exists in its decorativeness, people have admitted his uderstanding. In this project, I picked up two theme such as NISE-E and the Paintings of MARUYAMA Okyo and ITO Jakuchu. NISE-E is one of the style of the portrait painting which is prevalent in Kamakura period. Okyo and Jakuchu are painters active in 18th century and famous for their real styles of paintings.
In the study of NISE-E, I insisted that the development of the style of NISE-E can be devide in three stages and finally provided a new evaluation axis for the study of NISE-E. In the study of 18th Century paintings, I focused on the sliding doors painted by MARUYAMA Okyo and found that Okyo had tried to present his 2D objects in his painting into real 3D world. Okyo's paintings have a feeling of magic.

Free Research Field

日本美術史