Kawamura Wakashiba - Kawamurajakushi

Japanese: 河村若芝 - かわむらじゃくし

Born in 1638, Saga
[Died] October 1, 1707 (4th year of the Hoei period). Nagasaki School painter and metalworker in the early Edo period. His common surname was Kawamura, and his given name was Kizaemon. His pen names included Wakashiba and Shiyou. His legal name was Dokou. He went to Nagasaki to study under Itzen, where he painted realistic flower and bird paintings and portraits, and built the foundations of the Nagasaki School of Chinese painting. He also excelled in metalwork for incense burners, vases, and sword decorations, and gained popularity for his Wakashiba tsuba, which feature intricately inlaid gold patterns of people, landscapes, dragons, tigers, lions, and other figures. His major works include "Dharma," "Portrait of the Taoist Chogen," and "Picture of Hotei Crossing the River."

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Japanese:

[生]寛永15(1638).佐賀
[没]宝永4(1707).10.1. 長崎
江戸時代初期の長崎派画家，金工家。俗姓は河邨 (かわむら) ，名は喜左衛門。号は若芝，紫陽など。法諱は道光。長崎へ出て逸然に師事し，写生的な花鳥画，肖像画を描き，長崎漢画派の基礎を築く。香炉，花瓶，刀剣装飾の金工にもすぐれ，人物，山水，竜虎，獅子などの図柄を精巧に鏤金 (るきん) した「若芝鐔」で人気を得た。主要作品『達磨図』『道者超元像』『布袋渡河之図』。

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