The problem of the acceptance of Chinese Ming-Qing painting styles in Japan during the Edo period

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370142
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fine art history
• Research Institution: Tama Art University
• Principal Investigator: KONDO Hidemi 多摩美術大学, 美術学部, 教授 (90225623)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 江戸鎖国期 / 沈銓 / 曾鯨 / 呉彬 / 太平山水詩画 / 黄檗画像

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project explored Chinese influences on painting in Edo Japan, during the sakoku era. First, I examined connections between the Bochen school of portrait painting and the obaku school. In 1654 the Chinese monk Ingen brought to Japan a portrait by Zhang Qi, a student of the Chinese portrait painter Zeng Jing; I visited places associated with Zeng Jing, and viewed paintings by Zeng and his students. Second, I examined connections to Shen Quan, a Chinese painter who visited Nagasaki and whose Japanese students developed the Nagasaki school of painting. I visited places associated with Shen Quan and his Chinese students. Third, I traced the influences of Chinese painting manuals on the Edo painters Tanomura Chikuden and Rai Sanyo, focusing on painters from the Xin’an (Anhui)school of painters, and the painting manual Taiping Shanshui Shihua, edited by Xiao Yuncong. These comparisons provide important clues to the development of bunjin (literary) painting in the Edo period.

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東洋美術史