Tsubaki Chinzan

Artist

Tsubaki Chinzan (1801–1854) was born in Edo, today's Tokyo, the son of a samurai in the service of the shogunate who headed a spear corps, a position Chinzan inherited. He studied painting with Watanabe Kazan, a scholar-painter who combined Chinese literati painting with Western realism, and remained his most devoted pupil even after Kazan was persecuted by the authorities. Chinzan became known for bird-and-flower paintings and portraits in the nanga, or literati, style, with delicate colour and a soft, boneless technique without outlines. He worked under several art names. Our print, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, is Hut Amidst the Trees (1847), a quiet landscape in ink and colour on silk.

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