Hon'ami Kōetsu

Hon'ami Kōetsu

▪ Japanese painter
Kōetsu also spelled  Kōyetsu  
born 1558, Kyōto, Japan
died Feb. 27, 1637, Kyōto

      celebrated Japanese painter of the Tokugawa period who was also an innovator in lacquerwork (with raised inlays of metal and shell and bold designs), a calligrapher, a potter, a connoisseur of swords, a landscape gardener, and a devotee of the tea ceremony.

      He was born in the imperial city of Kyōto and followed his father's profession as purveyor of swords to the imperial court. In 1615 the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu granted him a territory in Takamine, northwest of Kyōto, where he established a hermitage called the Taikyo-an. Together with his equally remarkable relative Sōtatsu, he founded a school of painting that was continued by Ogata Kōrin, the style of which was colourful and strongly decorative, recapturing the Yamato-e tradition of classical Japan.

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