Genyu Araki

Japanese: 荒木元融 - あらき・げんゆう

Year of death: April 18, 1794 (May 17, 1794)
Year of birth: Kyoho 13 (1728)
A painter from the mid-Edo period. Commonly known as Tame-no-shin, his pen name was Shicho and his pen name Maruyama. Born into a merchant family in Nagasaki, he studied under Ishizaki Gentoku and then learned Western-style painting techniques from a Dutchman. He was adopted by Araki Motoyoshi, who shared his surname, and after Genkei resigned in 1766, he took over as a Chinese painting expert and official painter. Shiba Kokan, who came to Nagasaki in 1788, visited Motoyoshi and harshly criticized his paintings in his Saiyu Nikki, calling them "completely poor," but perhaps this was because he sought knowledge of oil painting and glass painting but was unable to gain it. He also taught his son Ishizaki Yushi and others. His works include "Go Play at the Water Pavilion" and "Two Carp" (both in the collection of the Kobe City Museum).

(Yasuhiro Sato)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：寛政6.4.18(1794.5.17)
生年：享保13(1728)
江戸中期の画家。通称為之進。字は士長。号は円山。長崎の商家に生まれる。石崎元徳に師事し,さらにオランダ人から洋風画法を学んだという。同姓であった荒木元慶の養子となり,明和3(1766)年元慶辞職ののち,その役を受けて唐絵目利兼御用絵師となる。天明8(1788)年に長崎に来た司馬江漢は元融を訪れ,その絵を「一向の下手」と『西遊日記』で酷評しているが,油絵やガラス絵の知識を求めて得られなかったためか。子の石崎融思らを指導した。作品に「水亭囲碁図」「双鯉図」(ともに神戸市立博物館蔵)など。

(佐藤康宏)

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