Suzuki Kiitsu

Japanese: 鈴木其一 - すずき・きいつ

Year of death: September 10, 1858 (October 16, 1858)
Year of birth: Kansei 8.4 (1796)
A painter from the late Edo period. His given name was Motonaga, commonly known as Tamezaburo, his pen name was Shibuchi, and his pen names included Hisan, Teibakushi, Shikuun, Tameisando, and Shukurinsai. He was born into a merchant family in Edo whose family business was purple dyeing, and in 1813, Sakai Hoitsu recognized his talent for painting and made him his apprentice. In 1814, after his fellow student Suzuki Tobei (Kaitan) suddenly died, he took over as head of the Suzuki family and became a vassal of the Sakai family, attending Hoitsu. Around the age of 40, he broke away from his teacher's style and formed his own unique world with his unique sense of color and form, as well as his unusual ideas and bold composition. His representative works include the "Summer and Autumn Mountain Stream Screen" (Nezu Museum), "White Camellias and Susukino Screen" (Fria Museum of Art), and "White Heron and Willows Screen" (Shin'enkan Collection). While sharing the somewhat decadent sentiment of Edo citizens at the end of the Tokugawa period, his works aimed for a new harmony between realistic depictions of nature and decorativeness, and also contained fresh content that led to Japanese paintings of the Meiji period. <References> Yamane Yuzo et al., eds., "Rinpa Paintings Complete Works: Hoitsu School," Kono Motoaki, "The Artistic Work of Suzuki Kiitsu" (Kokuka, No. 1067)

(Keiko Nakamachi)

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

Japanese:

没年：安政5.9.10(1858.10.16)
生年：寛政8.4(1796)
江戸後期の画家。名は元長,通称為三郎,字は子淵,号に必庵,庭柏子,錫雲,為三堂,祝琳斎などがある。紫染を家業とする江戸の町家に生まれ,文化10(1813)年酒井抱一に画才が認められ,内弟子となる。同14年同門の鈴木藤兵衛(蠣潭)が急死したのち,鈴木家の家督を継いで抱一付きの酒井家の臣となる。40歳前後より師風を脱し,特有の色感と形態感覚および奇抜な発想と大胆な構成とによって独自の世界を形成する。代表作に「夏秋渓流図屏風」(根津美術館蔵),「白椿・薄野図屏風」(フリア美術館蔵)や「柳に白鷺図屏風」(心遠館コレクション)などがある。幕末期江戸のやや退廃的市民感情を共有しつつも,写実的な自然描写と装飾性との新たな調和を目指した作品には,明治期の日本画へと繋がる新鮮な内容もみられる。<参考文献>山根有三ほか編『琳派絵画全集抱一派』,河野元昭「鈴木其一の画業」(『国華』1067号)

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