Kishi Takedo

Japanese: 岸竹堂 - きし・ちくどう

Year of death: July 27, 1897
Year of birth: April 22, 1826 (May 28, 1826)
A Japanese painter from the late Edo period to the Meiji period. The son of a samurai of the Hikone domain. Born in Hikone, his name was Shōroku. He first studied the Kano school under the domain's official painter, then in 1842 he went to Kyoto to become a student of Kano Eigaku. The following year he became a student of Kishi Renzan, learning the Kishi school, and was selected to become his adopted son. At the end of the Edo period, he painted works for Nijō Castle and the Imperial Palace, but during the period of decline in the art world after the Meiji Restoration, he also painted sketches for Yuzen. He also painted landscapes incorporating perspective expressions, such as "Otsu Karasakizu" (private collection), but continued the tradition of the Kishi school and specialized in tigers, winning awards at the Third Domestic Industrial Exposition in 1890 and at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. In 1894 he became an artist at the Imperial Household.

(Michinobu Sato)

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

Japanese:

没年：明治30.7.27(1897)
生年：文政9.4.22(1826.5.28)
幕末明治期の日本画家。彦根藩士の子。彦根生まれ。名は昌禄。初め同藩の御用絵師に狩野派を学んだのち,天保13(1842)年京都に出て狩野永岳に入門。翌年岸連山に入門して岸派を学び,嘱望されてその養嗣子となる。幕末には二条城や内裏に揮毫するが,明治維新後の画壇沈滞期には,友禅の下絵も描いた。「大津唐崎図」(個人蔵)など遠近表現をとり入れた実景山水も描いたが,岸派の伝統を継いで虎を得意とし,明治23(1890)年第3回内国勧業博覧会,26年シカゴ万博で受賞している。29年帝室技芸員となった。

(佐藤道信)

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