Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets

Illustrations

Illustrations ix Figures 1.1 Genealogy of the Kano house in the seventeenth century 12 1.2 Portrait of Kano Tan’yû 17 2.1 Kyòsai gadan,“Kyòsai Paints a Dragon” 44 2.2 Kyòsai gadan,“The Kano Surugadai Studio” 47 2.3 Kyòsai gadan,“Kyòsai’s Daily Drawing of Tenjin” 51 3.1 Katò Bunrei, Three Patriarchs 63 3.2 Tani Bunchò, Jûròjin 64 3.3 Tani Bunchò, selection from Honchò gasan 71 3.4 Yanagihara Sanmitsu, copy after Honchò gasan 73 3.5 Tani Bunchò, Gu Kaizhi 74 3.6 Tani Bunchò, Waterfall 76 3.7 Tani Kankan, Fishing in the Moonlight 79 3.8 Tani Bun’ichi, Poppies and Gourd 80 3.9 Kita Busei, Hibiscus 83 4.1 Photograph of Kawanabe Kyòsai 87 4.2 Kyòsai gadan, “Kuniyoshi’s Studio” 89 4.3 Kyòsai gadan, “Kyòsai’s Studio” 92 4.4 Kyòsai gadan, “Sketch of a King of the Underworld” 94 4.5 Kyòsai gadan,“First Lesson in the Kano School” 96 4.6 Kyòsai gadan,“Examples of Kano Brushwork” 96 x List of Illustrations 4.7 Kyòsai gadan, drawing based on Laocoön struggling with serpents 97 4.8 Kyòsai gadan,“Kano School Painting of Hands and Feet” 98 4.9 Kyòsai gadan,“Examples of Heads and Skulls Copied from Foreign Drawings” 99 4.10 Kyòsai gadan,“Ogata Kòrin’s Style of Painting” 100 4.11 Kyòsai gadan,“Kano Tan’yû’s Style of Painting” 101 4.12 Selection from Kyòsai’s painting diary 108 4.13 Selection from Kyòsai’s painting diary 109 5.1 Photograph of Okuhara Seiko 119 5.2 Watanabe Kazan, funpon of Lord Yu Builds His Gate 122 5.3 Watanabe Kazan, Lord Yu Builds His Gate 122 5.4 Okuhara Seiko, funpon after Watanabe Kazan’s Lord Yu Builds His Gate 123 5.5 Okuhara Seiko, Lord Yu Builds His Gate 123 5.6 Okuhara Seiko, funpon after Wang Hui, Scholar in a Mountain Retreat (1678) 124 5.7 Attributed to Huang Gongwang, StoneWall at the Pond of Heaven 125 5.8 Okuhara Seiko, funpon after Huang Gongwang, StoneWall at the Pond of Heaven 126 5.9 Okuhara Seiko, StoneWall at the Pond of Heaven 126 5.10 Okuhara Seiko, funpon of bamboo 128 5.11 Okuhara Seiko, Bamboo by a Stream 129 5.12 Okuhara Seiko, funpon after Lin Liang, Geese and Reeds 130 5.13 Okuhara Seiko, White Rabbit 131 5.14 Okuhara Seiko, funpon after Tani Bunchò, Zhong Kui (1823) 132 5.15 Okuhara Seiko, Dreams of Cranes amidWindy Pines 135 5.16 Watanabe Seiran, sketches of flowers and miscellaneous subjects 140 5.17 Okuhara Seiko, cat sketches from shukuzu book 141 5.18 Okuhara Seiko, bird-and-flower sketch from shukuzu book 144 6.1 Photograph of Yokoyama Taikan 156 6.2 Shimomura Kanzan, drawing 158 6.3 Yokoyama Taikan, copy of ringa model Court Lady 159 6.4 Tokyo School of Fine Arts Faculty, Buddhist Sage ringa model 160 6.5 Hashimoto Gahò, White Clouds, Red Leaves 164 6.6 Saigò Kogetsu, White Clouds, Red Leaves 165 6.7 Yamada Otosaburò, Design for aTokugawa-Style Room Interior 173 Color Plates 1. Kawanabe Kyòsai, Bishamonten 2. Kawanabe Kyòsai, Shòro dendò 3. Nomura Bunshò, Portrait of Bunchò 4. Nomura Bunshò, View of Shazanrò Studio 5. Detail of Nomura Bunshò, View of Shazanrò Studio 6. Kyòsai gadan, illustrations of animals, “shasei” 7. Kyòsai gadan,“Toba Sòjò’s Style of Painting” 8. Okuhara Seiko, Bird-and-Flower Pair 9. Takaya Shòtetsu, Sakyamuni Preaching 10. Utsumi Kòsei, Summer Landscape 11. Kurata Tokumatsu, Musashino 12. Seki Yasunosuke, Design for a Fujiwara-Style Room Interior 13. Okamoto Katsumoto, Parting of Kusunoki Masashige and His Son 14. Yokoyama Taikan, Village ChildrenWatching the Monkey Dance List of Illustrations xi ...