Tawaraya Sōtatsu

Tawaraya Sōtatsu (Japanese俵 屋 宗 达; actively Keicho ( 1595-1615 ) to Kan'ei ( 1624-1644 ) ) was a Japanese artist and - posthumously - co-founder of the Rimpa (short for Kōrin -ha ), a school of Japanese painting which is therefore also called Sōtatsu - Kōrin -ha.

Sōtatsu began his career as a painter in Kyoto subjects. Later he was summoned to the imperial court, where he designed jewelry sheets for calligraphy. He was highly influenced by the courtly culture of Kyoto. So Sōtatsu met with the famous designer and calligrapher Hon'ami Kōetsu, and painted backgrounds for its work. Sōtatsu excelled particularly in projects that had a careful arrangement of decorative screens and trays to content. He created a new way of expressing colors and lines and made a technique called tarashikomi popular, in which a color was applied to the other, while it was still wet. Sōtatsu also developed a distinctive style of monochrome painting with the ink instead of paint was used. Among his most prominent works include the illustrated envelope cover, which he painted for the Lotus Sutra.

In addition to three national treasures, the famous " Wind and Thunder God " folding screen couple ( Fujin Raijin to ) the Kennin -ji, the ink drawing Renchi suikin to and the screen pair with scenes from the Genji Monogatari are twelve other works registered as Important Cultural Assets.

His major work, the screen couple Matsushima, got about a hundred years ago in the Freer Gallery ( Washington).

Genji Monogatari

Matsushima (left folding screen )

Matsushima (right folding screen )

Swell

• Gowing, L ( ed.) 1995, A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Rev. edn, Andromeda Oxford Limited, Oxfordshire.