Takashina Takakane

Japanese: 高階隆兼 - たかしな・たかかね

Years of birth: unknown. Painter of the Imperial Court Painting Office in the late Kamakura period. Ukon-dayu no Shogen. Marked an era as a court painter under Emperor Go-Fushimi and Emperor Hanazono. Records can be traced from 1309 to 1330, including the coloring of the Hiyoshi Shrine portable shrine donated by Go-Fushimi-in (1315), the "Aizen Myoo statue" (1321) ordered by Emperor Hanazono, and a copy of the "Kamo Festival Scroll" by Fujiwara no Tamenobu (1330). Definitive works include the Imperial Treasure "Kasuga Gongen Miracle Record" (1309, Imperial Household Agency) and "Kasuga Kagemuko-zu" (1312, Fujita Museum of Art). The former is a dignified and highly accomplished work that revives the tradition of Yamato-e painting from the time of Heian-period painter Tokiwa Mitsunaga, using bright colors and light, rhythmic lines. Extant works by Takakane himself or in his style include the 12 volumes of the "Xuanzang Tripitaka Illustrated Scroll" (owned by the Fujita Museum of Art), the 7 volumes of the "Ishiyama-dera Engi Illustrated Scroll" at Ishiyama-dera (volumes 1-3 of which were written by Takakane), and the "Yata Jizo Engi Illustrated Scroll" (2 volumes) at Yata-dera in Kyoto. There are also other examples in the same style, such as the "Eshi Zoushi" (owned by the Tokyo National Museum) and the "Nayotake Monogatari Illustrated Scroll" (owned by Kotohira Shrine), and his influence continued until around the middle of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. His successor was Takatsugu, who served as the next court painter at the Imperial Painting Studio.

(Masahiko Aizawa)

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

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
鎌倉後期の宮廷絵所絵師。右近大夫将監。後伏見・花園天皇膝下の宮廷絵師として一時代を画した。延慶2(1309)年から元徳2(1330)年までの記録がたどれ,後伏見院寄進の日吉社神輿の彩色(1315),花園天皇の命による「愛染明王像」(1321),藤原為信筆の「加茂祭礼絵巻」の模写(1330)などがある。確定的な作品として御物「春日権現霊験記」(1309,宮内庁蔵)と「春日影向図」(1312,藤田美術館蔵)がある。前者は平安期の絵師常磐光長以来のやまと絵の伝統を復古させ,明度の高い色調と抑揚感のある軽やかな描線を用いた,格調のある完成度の高い作品である。隆兼自身の,あるいはその様式による現存作品として「玄奘三蔵絵巻」12巻(藤田美術館蔵),石山寺「石山寺縁起絵巻」7巻(内1～3巻が隆兼筆),京都矢田寺「矢田地蔵縁起絵巻」(2巻)などがある。また「絵師草子」(東京国立博物館蔵),「なよたけ物語絵巻」(金刀比羅宮蔵)など同様式の作例もあり,その影響は南北朝半ばごろまで続く。後継者に次代の宮廷絵所絵師を務めた隆継がいる。

(相澤正彦)

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