rinpa

Japanese painting style

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In Japanese art: Painting
…into a distinctive style called rinpa, an acronym linking the second syllable of the name of Ōgata Kōrin, the leading proponent of the style in the Edo period, and ha (pa), meaning “school” or “group.” Sōtatsu himself was active into the 1640s, and his pupils carried on his distinctive rendering…
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In Japanese art: Japanese-style painting
At Okakura’s suggestion he studied rinpa. His use of tarashikomi, a classic rinpa technique that achieves shading through pooling successive layers of partially dried pigment, clearly points out his wide-ranging adaptation of traditional techniques. Seison and others of his period were especially fond of historical subjects.
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