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Article: Flowering cherry with poem slips.(All Levels: Looking and Learning)
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- School Arts
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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About the Artist
Tosa Mitsuoki, a prominent Japanese painter of the seventeenth century, belonged to a family of artists. His father, with whom he moved to Kyoto at the age of seventeen, trained him. Painters in the workshop in which Mitsuoki trained specialized in literary and historical subjects. They painted in the native yamato-e style, which employed flat, vivid colors, sensitive brushwork, and smooth surfaces.
Throughout his life, Mitsuoki tackled a diverse range of subjects and styles in response to the interest of his patrons. His works include picture albums and folding fans. At the age of forty, Mitsuoki became the superintendent and chief ...