Hanabusa Iccho
A painter who portrayed urban manners and customs in the early to mid-Edo period (1603-1867) with light and stylish brushstrokes. He is the founder of the Hanabusa school.
1652-1724 (Jouou 1-Kyoho9)
Hanabusa Iccho is a painter from the early to mid-Edo period. Born in Kyoto, his family name was Fujiwara Taga, and his childhood name was Isaburo, which he later changed to Jiemon Sukenoshin. His personal names were Nobuka and Yasuo, and his nickname was Kunju. As a painter, he first used the nom de plume of Taga Choko, and changed it to Hanabusa Iccho after returning to Edo (present Tokyo) from exile on Miyakejima Island. His other pseudonyms included Karibayashi Sanjin, Suisaou, Hokusouou, and many others. His haiku pen name was Gyo-un.
In 1666, when he was 15, he moved to Edo with his family and became a disciple of Kano Yasunobu, a Shogunate (Japan's feudal government) painter. He mastered the Edo Kano school style, but was later influenced by the ukiyoe and genre paintings of Iwasa Matabei and Hishikawa Moronobu, and his paintings of urban customs became popular. He also became familiar with haikai, (collective name for haiku) and interacted with Matsuo Basho, and his students, Enomoto Kikaku and Hattori Ransetsu. Iccho's haiku (seventeen-syllable verse) are found in the haikai poem collection of the Basho school published at the time under the haikai pen name Gyo-un. He was also known as a professional entertainer in the Yoshiwara red-light district, and was exiled to Miyakejima Island at the age of 46, for invoking the Edo Shogunate's disapproval with his conduct in1693. During his exile, he lived in Ako Village, where he ran a general store selling rice and sake. At the same time, he painted pictures of Tenjin, Hotei, Kannon, and other deities at the request of Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, and influential people on Miyakejima and neighboring islands. Iccho's works from the Miyakejima period are known as "Shima Iccho".
In 1709, he was pardoned by the Shogun's replacement and returned to Edo, changed his name to Hanabusa Iccho, and energetically worked on his paintings from then on. He also trained disciples such as Isshu, Ippou, and Issui, and formed the Hanabusa school, one of the Japanese-style painting schools, which operated until the late Edo period. He passed away in 1724.
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