Haiga - Haiga

A painting with a taste for haiku. It praises haiku, haiku poems, or haiku poems, and is painted in simple strokes of washes or ink, resonating with the words of the praise or explaining the content of the praise. It is not necessarily a self-praise. Its origins are unknown, and while Basho, Kyoriku, and Sakaki Hyakusen had already painted what could be called haiku paintings, it was Yosa Buson who perfected it artistically. Buson himself called his works "dramatic haiku paintings," and left behind excellent works such as "Oku no Hosomichi" (The Narrow Road to the Deep North) and "Wakatake" (Young Bamboos). At the end of the Edo period, Watanabe Kazan produced the print "Haigafu," and around this time the term "haiga" became established. Since then, it has remained one of the most widely used forms of Japanese painting to this day.

[Hoshino Suzu]

"The World of Haiku Paintings by Okada Toshibei (1966, Tankoshinsha) " "The Art of Haiku Paintings and Calligraphy" 12 volumes (1979-80, Shueisha)

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俳味ある洒脱(しゃだつ)な画(え)。俳諧(はいかい)、俳文、俳句を賛とし、淡彩もしくは墨画(ぼくが)の簡略な筆致で、賛の句に響き合う、あるいは賛の内容を説明するところを画にしたもの。自画自賛とは限らない。創始については不明であり、すでに芭蕉(ばしょう)や許六(きょりく)、彭城百川(さかきひゃくせん)は俳画とよべるものを描いているが、それを芸術的に完成させたのは与謝蕪村(よさぶそん)である。蕪村は自ら「俳諧ものの草画」とよび、『おくのほそ道図屏風(びょうぶ)』や『若竹(わかたけ)図』などの優れた作品を残している。幕末の渡辺崋山(かざん)には版本『俳画譜』があり、このころには俳画という呼称が定着し、以後もっとも一般に普及した日本画の一形式として現代に至っている。

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『岡田利兵衛著『俳画の世界』（1966・淡交新社）』▽『『俳人の書画美術』全12巻（1979～80・集英社）』

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