Southern Painting (nanga)
A style of painting that spread from China to Japan and was mastered in the Edo period by Taiga Ikeno and Buson Yosa
Nanga (southern painting) is a term used in Japan with virtually the same meanings as nanshuga (the Southern School of painting) and bunjinga (literati painting). It also refers to the style of painting of this school. Nanga is conjectured to be an abbreviated form of nanshuga. The origins of this style lie in the Chinese Southern School style of painting advanced by Mo Shilong and Dong Qichang, proud literati painters active from the second half of the 16th century until the beginning of the 17th century. This style stands in contrast with hokuga (northern painting) or hokushuga (the Northern School of painting). The southern painting style employs successive layering of soft brushstrokes, often with light coloration or in ink washes. It is said to have spread to Japan in the mid-Edo period. Taiga Ikeno and Buson Yosa then established southern painting as an original style rooted in the landscape and climate of Japan. The Kasei era (1804–1831) produced individualistic artists such as Gyokudo Uragami, Chikuden Tanomura, and Buncho Tani, and toward the end of the Edo period, the style spread throughout Japan. The coming of the Meiji period, however, brought a campaign in which intellectual leaders such as Ernest Francisco Fenollosa and Tenshin Okamura denounced southern painting from the viewpoint of Nihonga (Japanese painting), and the style fell into decline around the mid-1880s.
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