Word: itsu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Small Events. But the high points of the show are twelve hanging scrolls, six by Itō Jakachu and six by Sakai Hōitsu. These artists represent the poles of style and temperament in Edo period painting: Hōitsu with his feathery, elusive washes of ink painted wet into wet; Jakachu with his steely drawing and complicated patterns. Hōitsu was nobly born, the younger brother of a feudal lord. However, he wanted to paint, and, being a most elegant dilettante, educated to the fingertips, he ran through a succession of styles before fixing the manner...
...color-painting on silk, the imperial collections' Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months. It would be hard to imagine a subtler, less cluttered image of nature than the cherry branch and spray of white blossoms in the February scroll (opposite); in this whispering refinement, Hōitsu was far removed from the earlier Jakach...
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