Yusetsu Kaihoku

Japanese: 海北友雪 - かいほう・ゆうせつ

Year of death: September 3, 1677 (September 29, 1677)
Year of birth: 1598
A painter from the early Edo period. He is said to be the son of Kaihō Tomomatsu, but may have been adopted. His given name was Michiki and he also went by the names Tomomatsu and Tomomatsu. After his father's death, he made a living as Otani Tadazaemon, an artist (a town painter who not only painted specially ordered paintings but also produced mass-produced pre-paintings and other more craft-related work), but thanks to the recommendation of Kasuga no Tsubone, who Tomomatsu had looked after for a time, he was bestowed an Edo mansion by Tokugawa Iemitsu and was given orders to work there. It is believed that he began to use the Kaihō family name around that time. After that, he participated in the production of screen paintings for the Imperial Palace during the Meireki, Kanbun, and Enpo periods, and also served the court of Emperor Gomizunoo and others, and was awarded the title of Hokkō. His style is light and gentle, and many of his works are intricately ingenious. He is more strongly influenced by Yamato-e and the Edo Kano style than Tomomatsu. His representative works include the "Cloud Dragon" sliding door painting at Rinsho-in Temple in Myoshinji (Kasuga no Tsubone's family temple), the "Gion Festival Screen" (owned by the Yawatayama Preservation Association in Kyoto), and the "Itsukushima Screen" (private collection). <References> "Tokiyoshi-kyoki" and "About the Painter" by Yamane Yuzo (Art History, No. 48)

(Keiko Kawamoto)

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

Japanese:

没年：延宝5.9.3(1677.9.29)
生年：慶長3(1598)
江戸初期の画家。海北友松の子とされるが,養子の可能性もある。名は道暉,友雪と号す。父の死後しばらくは絵屋(特別注文の絵画だけでなく大量生産の仕込絵制作やより工芸的な仕事もした町絵師)の小谷忠左衛門として生計を立てたが,友松が一時世話をした春日局の推挙により,徳川家光から江戸屋敷を拝領,その用命を受けることとなった。海北姓を名乗るのはそのころからと推定される。以後,明暦・寛文・延宝期の内裏の障壁画制作に参加,後水尾上皇などの宮廷の御用も勤め,法橋にも叙せられた。作風は軽妙・温雅で機知的趣向を凝らしたものも少なくない。友松よりもやまと絵や江戸狩野様式からの影響が強く認められる。代表作に妙心寺麟祥院(春日局の菩提寺)「雲竜図襖絵」,「祇園祭礼図屏風」(京都・八幡山保存会蔵),「厳島図屏風」(個人蔵)など。<参考文献>『時慶卿記』,山根有三「絵屋について」(『美術史』48号)

(川本桂子)

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