Imao Keinen
Illustration — Imao Keinen • Illustration — Illustration of two red birds and a white flower, from the Keinen Kachō Gafu album (1892) Kyoto 1845 – 1924 was a Japanese painter and print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement. In 1904 he became a member of the Art Committee and was appointed as an Imperial Household Artist.
Imao Keinen
Imao Keinen (1845 - 1924) – Painter (Japanese) Born in Kyoto. Died in Kyoto. Details on Google Art Project · qAFJaDe0MSDL3w at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level · Public domain
- Born
- 1845 · Kyoto.
- Died
- 1924
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- Japan
- Occupation
- painter
- Teachers
- Suzuki Hyakunen
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Illustration — Imao Keinen • Illustration — Illustration of two red birds and a white flower, from the Keinen Kachō Gafu album (1892) Kyoto 1845 – 1924 was a Japanese painter and print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement. In 1904 he became a member of the Art Committee and was appointed as an Imperial Household Artist.
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Training under Suzuki Hyakunen is recorded. Positions recorded include Imperial Household Artist. Work by Imao Keinen is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, National Museum of World Cultures, Seattle Art Museum and Vanderbilt Museum of Art.
From the age of 12, Keinen received a comprehensive education in various Japanese art styles: classical Japanese painting, printmaking, and calligraphy. In 1880 he received a professorship at the Kyoto School of Painting. Following the publication of the Keinen Kachō Gafu album in 1892, he became a member of the Art Committee of the imperial court and in 1919 a member of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. The Keinen Kachō Gafu (景年花鳥畫譜), published in 1892, is an album with an extensive series of bird-and-flower (kachō-e) in woodblock print. His works are part of many museum collections throughout the world.
Three from a set of five blue and white sencha cups, by Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924), Imao Keinen (1845 - 1924) and Tajika Chikuson (1864 - 1922), Japan, Taishō period, 1911 - 1912, porcelain decorated in underglaze blue, Honolulu Museum of Art, accession 13226.1-5
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1845
Imao Keinen was born on 13 September 1845.
1924
Imao Keinen died on 1 January 1924.
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- 1.Imao Keinen. ku.edu. September 2024.
- 2.Fuji Arts Japanese Prints - Imao Keinen (1845 - 1924) and his Four Seasons (Keinen Kacho Gafu). fujiarts.com.
- 3.Imao Keinen - Two Birds and Crysanthemums, from Keinen kachō gafu (Keinen's Flower-and-Bird Painting Manual) - Japan - The Met. metmuseum.org.
- 4.Imao Keinen - Rijksmuseum. rijksmuseum.nl.
- 5.Keinen, Imao - The Art Institute of Chicago. artic.edu.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Louise Norton Brown, Book Illustration in Japan (New York: Routledge, 1924), 198–201.
- Jack Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, vol. 2 (London: Sotheby's, 1987), 800, 969.
- Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992), 41.
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