Ogata Gekkō

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Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Script error: No such module "Nihongo". was a Japanese artist best known as a painter and a designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints. He was self-taught in art, won numerous national and international prizes, and was one of the earliest Japanese artists to win an international audience.

Biography

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Ryūshōten (Script error: No such module "Lang"., "Dragon Rising up to Heaven")
A dragon ascends towards the heavens with Mount Fuji in the background in this print from Gekko's Views of Mount Fuji.
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An incident in the Battle of Weihaiwei during the First Sino-Japanese War. Major General Ōdera at the cliff, 1895 — Woodblock print by Ogata Gekkō, ink and color on paper triptych; 37.9 x 72.8 cm (14 15/16 x 28 11/16 in.) in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Gekkō was born Nakagami Masanosuke (名鏡 正之助) in Kyōbashi Yazaemon-chō in Edo (modern Tokyo) in 1859. His father, tradesman Nakagami Seijirō (名鏡 清次郎), died in 1876, and Gekkō took to work in a lantern shop in Kyōbashi Yumi-chō.Template:Sfn

Gekkō was self-taught in art and began decorating porcelain and rickshaws, and designing flyers for the pleasure quarters. His early style shows the influence of the painter Kikuchi Yōsai.Template:Sfn Around 1881,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". he took the surname Ogata at the insistence of a descendant of the painter Ogata Kōrin. He soon was designing prints and illustrating books and newspapers. In 1885, Gekkō exhibited in the Painting Appreciation Society, and he became acquainted with art scholars Ernest Fenellosa and Okakura Kakuzō.Template:Sfn

In 1886, Gekkō produced the print series Gekkō Zuihitsu (Script error: No such module "Lang"., "Gekkō’s Random Sketches").[1] In 1888, he married an art student of his, Tai Kiku—his second marriage—and changed his family name to Tai. He was a judge in the Template:Interlanguage link, which he helped found in 1891. The First Sino-Japanese War was the subject of a number of triptychs he designed in 1894–1895.Template:Sfn[2]

From the 1890s, Gekkō won a number of national and international art prizes. He was one of the earliest Japanese artists to win international attention. At the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, he won a prize for Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., "Edo’s Sannō Festival"), and in 1904, he won the Gold Prize for the series Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji")[3] at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.Template:Sfn His work was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 and at the Japan-British Exhibition in London in 1910.[4]Template:Sfn In 1898, at the Japan Art Association, Emperor Meiji bought his painting Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang"., "Night Attack of the Soga"). He won third prize at the sixth Template:Interlanguage link in 1912.Template:Sfn

Gekkō died on 1 October 1920 in Shin-Ogawamachi in Ushigome Ward of Tokyo at age 61. His art names include Kagyōrō, Meikyōsai, Kiyū, and Rōsai. He had few students, the best-known of whom was Kōgyo Tsukioka, the adopted son of Yoshitoshi.Template:Sfn

Style

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The swordsmith Munechika being aided by a kitsune fox spirit, in a print by Gekkō.

His work was originally closely based upon that of Kikuchi Yōsai; and he was inspired by Hokusai, creating a series of one hundred prints of Mount Fuji.[4] However, he did develop his own style, with significant stylistic elements from nihonga.

Gekkō was among the artists whose artwork informed the Japanese populace about the progress of naval and land war known today as the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895.[5] A number of Gekkō's war images were published in Seishin Bidan by Yokoyama Ryohachi.

An impression of the Haiyang Island (Kaiyoto) Naval Battle in 1894 was prepared in a large-scale quadruptich format.

Among the widely circulated Sino-Japanese triptych images of the war, which were created by Gekkō include:

  • Japanese Officers and Soldiers Fight Bravely at Fenghuangcheng[6]
  • The Japanese First Army Advances Toward Mukden[6]
  • The Japanese Navy Victorious Off Takushan[6]
  • Captain Osawa and Six Others From the Warship Yaeyama Close in on Yungcheng Bay[6]
  • Presenting a Portentous Eagle to the Emperor[6]
  • Popular Viewing of the Captured Chinese Warship Chenyuen[6]
  • Japanese and Chinese Dignitaries Accomplish Their Missions in Successfully Concluding a Peace Treaty[6]

Selected works

Gekkō's published work encompasses 46 works in 48 publications in 2 languages and 68 library holdings.[7] Script error: No such module "Hatnote".

Gallery

See also

References

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  4. ↑ a b Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al. (2005). "Ogata Gekkō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 737.
  5. ↑ Keene, Donald et al. (2001). Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Woodblock Prints from the Meiji Era, 1868-1912, p. 100.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  7. ↑ WorldCat Identities: 尾形月耕 1859–1920; Gekko, Ogata 1859-1920.

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Works cited

External links

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