Art name

Artist name (Chinese号/号, Pinyin Hào, Japanese: gō; Korean: ho; Vietnamese: Hiệu ) is a term for the pseudonym of artists from East Asia. The concept and the idea to use a stage name for plants, is originally from China and was quickly adopted by artists and writers in other East Asian countries, primarily in Japan and Korea.

Some artists put themselves in the course of their lives, several artists name. In some of these cases the names highlighted different sections in their lives or their careers. So Tang Yin took from the Chinese Ming Dynasty total of more than ten artists name. In Japan, the ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai is a typical example, since he used six different artist names alone in the period 1798-1806.

Schools and Artist Title

China's famous poet Li Bai of the Tang dynasty in the 8th century AD was the first to use this form of the pseudonym.

In Japan during the Edo period, the woodcut artist of ukiyo -e, as well as the artists of other styles her first stage name ( Gō ) from their respective teachers received, this Gō usually contained a character from the Gō of the taskmaster. This was the first artist Hokusai's name Shunro, shun the character comes from the name of his master Utagawa Shunshō.

In this way it is easily possible, the relationships among the artists determine, especially because it mainly in the Utagawa school custom was in the later years to make correspond the first syllable in the name of the student of the last syllable in the name of the Master. For example, the well-known landscape artist Utagawa Hiroshige was a master with the Gō Utagawa Toyohiro.

Outside the prestigious art schools of Kano and Tosa it was unusual in Japan, the artist name and add the name of the school. Frequently, however, more to himself given by the artist Artist names were added to the first; Utagawa Kunisada, for example, signed his work for a long time, among others, " Gototei Kunisada " or " Kochoro Kunisada ".