Kōno Bairei
Kōno Bairei was a Japanese painter, book illustrator, and art teacher. He was born (as Yasuda Bairei) and lived in Kyoto. He was a member of the broad Maruyama-Shijo school and was a master of kacho-e painting (depictions of birds and flowers) in the Meiji period of Japan.
Also recorded as Kono Bairei · Shijun · Bairei Kono · Bairei Kōno
Kōno Bairei
Kyoto City University of Arts · Public domain
- Name
- Kōno Bairei
- Born
- 3 March 1844
- Birthplace
- Kyoto, Japan
- Died
- 20 February 1895
- Occupation
- Japanese painter
- Nationality
- Japan
- Fields
- visual arts
- Movements
- ukiyo-e · Nihonga
- Teachers
- Nakajima Raishō · Shiokawa Bunrin · Kōyama Hōyō · Kōseki Nakanishi
- Languages
- Japanese
Encyclopédie VALÉORINE
Le dossier documentaire
Chaque énoncé est lu dans les notices d’autorité des institutions nommées. Choisissez « Preuve » à côté d’un énoncé pour voir la notice d’où il est tiré, l’endroit précis et la date de lecture.
Kōno Bairei, peintre, « educators » et « illustrators », naquit le 20 avril 1844 à Kyōto et mourut le 2 février 1895.
Vie
La naissance est enregistrée par la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek et la Getty Union List of Artist Names ; le décès par la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Institutions citées
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek · Getty Union List of Artist Names
Chaîne de lecture complète (JSON)Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Kōno Bairei. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q3201302 · wikipedia · Kōno Bairei
In this article
Biography
Biography
Training under Nakajima Raishō, Shiokawa Bunrin and Kōyama Hōyō is recorded. Hobun Kikuchi, Kōkyō Taniguchi and Takeuchi Seihō are recorded as having studied under Kōno Bairei. The recorded working language is Japanese. The field of work recorded is visual arts. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are bird-and-flower. Places of work recorded in the authority are Kansai region. Employment is recorded with Kyoto City University of Arts. Positions recorded include Imperial Household Artist. Work by Kōno Bairei is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Diet Library, Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Vogel met witte kop en blauwe borst, tussen struik met blauwe bessen. Label
Kōno Bairei · http: (handle)
Zwart-witte vogel bij gele bloemen met rood-bruin blad. Label
Kōno Bairei · https: (handle)
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Kōno Bairei • Born — 3 March 1844 • Birthplace — Kyoto, Japan • Died — 20 February 1895 • Occupation — Japanese painter
Biography
Biography
In 1852, he went to study with the Maruyama-school painter, Nakajima Raisho (1796–1871). After Raisho's death, Bairei studied with the Shijo-school master Shiokawa Bunrin (1808–77). His work included flower prints, bird prints, and landscapes, with a touch of western realism. Bairei's Album of One Hundred Birds was published in 1881. He opened an art school in 1880 and his students included Takeuchi Seihō, Kawai Gyokudō, and Uemura Shōen.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Kyoto.
Birth place
Sanbongi.
Death place
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Kōno Bairei, revision 1366047905 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Answers.com
- 2.Bairei Kono-The Japanese Master-幸野楳嶺-日本繪畫大師與作品
- 3.Bairei Kono-The Japanese Master-幸野楳嶺-日本繪畫大師與作品
- 4.Answers.com
- 5.Kono, Bairei. Bairei hyakucho gafu 1. Okura Magobei. 1881.
- 6.Kono, Bairei. Bairei hyakucho gafu 2. Okura Magobei. 1881.
- 7.Kono, Bairei. Bairei hyakucho gafu 3. Okura Magobei. 1881.
- 8.Kono Bairei Biography.
- 9.Bairei Hyakucho Gafu
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Born at
1- KyotoPlace
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Illustration
5,224 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Kōichi TokitaIllustrator
- Koji IshikawaIllustrator
- Kōji YamamuraIllustrator
- Koloman SokolIllustrator
- Konstantin PervukhinIllustrator
- Konstantin SavitskyIllustrator
- Konstantin TotibadzeIllustrator
- Konstantin VialovIllustrator
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Kōno Bairei?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.