Ikeda Koson and the Construction of Rinpa

Wibke Schrape

doi:10.5771/9783958994782

Summary

The painter Ikeda Koson (1803–1868) compiled woodblock-printed copybooks with compositions by his teacher Sakai Hōitsu (1761–1828) and his self-proclaimed predecessor Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716). He thus promoted himself as part of an artistic genealogy known today as Rinpa. Wibke Schrape’s study of Koson’s paintings and publications broadens the understanding of Rinpa as an artistic and art historical construct. Her application of actor-network-theory (ANT) as a methodical approach to Koson’s paintings challenges art-historical categories such as style and painting school by analyzing images as mediators in intertwined processes of artistic meaning and art historical knowledge production. Schrape thereby sheds light on the yet understudied painting production of the late Tokugawa period (1615–1868) and contributes to the reevaluation of the nineteenth century in Japanese art history.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-89739-982-2
ISBN-Online: 978-3-95899-478-2
Publisher: VDG, Ilmtal-Weinstraße
Series: Studies of East Asian History/Studien zur Ostasiatischen Kunstgeschichte
Volume: 6
Language: English
Pages: 296
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 9
1. The Construction of Rinpa No access
2. Ikeda Koson in Art History No access
3. Koson, Rinpa, and the Nation No access
4. An ANT Approach to Images No access
5. About this Book No access
1. 1. Names and Name Troubles No access
  2. Biographical Facts and Cultural Acts No access
2. Provenance and Perception of Koson’s Artworks No access
3. Artworks as Actor-Networks No access
1. Interpictoriality in Rinpa Pictoriality No access
2. The Correlation of Medium and Materiality No access
3. Big Frame—Big Name? Maple Leaves on a Stream and Mountain Views No access
4. The Thirty-Six Immortal Poets as Heirloom Painting of the Ogata Lineage No access
1. A Flower is a Flower is a Flower: Koson’s kachōga No access
2. Famous Places in and around Edo: Koson’s meisho-e No access
3. Staying Faithful to Antique Models: Religious Paintings No access
4. Koson’s Beauties: Re-Visions of Matabei in Nineteenth-Century Japan No access
5. Appropriating Yamato-e No access
6. Koson’s Painting Production: Practices, Materiality, and Chronology No access
1. Koson’s surimono No access
2. Koson’s Collection of Model Sketches No access
3. 1. Hōitsu’s Construction of the Ogata Lineage No access
  2. Koson’s Copybook Projects No access
  3. Miniature Reproductions (shukuzu) as Mediators No access
  4. Copybooks as Orders of Images: Showing and Telling Art History No access
1. Praising Kōrin in Europe No access
2. Constructing the Kōrin School in Japan No access
3. Alternative Ways of Transition: Nozawa Teiu No access
4. Artistic Reflections of Rinpa in Early Twentieth-Century Japan No access
The Immutable Mobiles of Rinpa No access Pages 169 - 171
1. A Ikeda Koson in Directories and Price Lists No access
2. B Survey of Paintings and Prints No access
3. C Signatures and Seals on Dated Works No access
Endnotes No access Pages 244 - 267
References No access Pages 268 - 277
Index and List of Characters No access Pages 278 - 287
Photo Credits No access Pages 288 - 296