E-088 Sohtatsu(Tawaraya)Nonomura 22,000 yen

[Printing scroll]
Cherry blossom

printing size
34.1/2x14.1/2in. (88x37cm)
mounting size
71x22.1/2in. (182x58cm)

on paper
Wooden box






Signature and seal whole
Original detailed

Sohtatsu(Tawaraya)Nonomura (?-1643)

Rimpa painter. Born in Noto Province; son of a wealthy merchant named Tawaraya whose studio made fans as well as pictures to be placed on folding screens. His teacher unknown. First worked in Kyoto with Kohetsu, perhaps marrying his cousin; later served the Maeda family in Kaga Province, where he died. By 1630 had received title of Hokyou. Won favor of Kyoto nobility, first artist from the merchant class to achieve this distinction. Mastered art of Yamato-e, studied early Chinese painting, also painted in Suiboku manner. Is known to have restored the 12th-century sutras of the Itsukushima Shrine and to have been acquainted with the 13th-century scroll of Ten Fast Bulls. Painted subjects from the Genji Monogatari, the Heiji Monogatari, and the Ise Monogatari; decorated fans with scenes borrowed from the narrative scroll of the Kamakura and Muromachi periods. Much influenced by Kohetsu, under whose tutelage he made the Rimpa school one of the greatest and most individual in all Japanese art. Forgotten during the 18th century, perhaps because he died in the provinces; was rediscovered in the 19th century, and recent research has given him his rightful place as a great creative master of the decorative school. His seal endless confusion in the game of attributions. Preferred simplified shapes, almost abstract display of color and gold in his decorative painting; in his monochrome work turned back to Chinese Ming models, producing a number of ink paintings of hermits and the founders of Buddhism. Complete absence of outline, pigments of best quality (even using gold as a pigment), transparent brushwork of freely brushed color mark his decorative work.

Condition :All is fine.
part expansion
Mounting and scroll edge and wooden box