Rinpa
琳派
Movement · school · 17th century–19th century
A school of decorative painting and design — bright colours, gold and silver grounds, flattened and stylised motifs from classical poetry and the seasons — that shaped not only painting but lacquer, ceramics and textiles. It is not a family lineage like the Kanō or Tosa but an association of shared aesthetic values; its name comes from the second syllable of Ogata Kōrin’s name1. Dates. It traces its origins to Hon’ami Kōetsu and Tawaraya Sōtatsu in Kyoto in the early 17th century — Kōetsu’s artists’ community at Takagamine from 16152 — was revitalised by Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716) around 1700 and revived in Edo by Sakai Hōitsu, who held a ceremony for the centenary of Kōrin’s death in 1815; his follower Suzuki Kiitsu (1796–1858) carried it into the mid-19th century3. It lived on in the nihonga of the 20th century4. Mason 2005, pp. 312–313. ↩ Ebd., pp. 238–239. ↩ Ebd., pp. 312–317. ↩ Ebd., pp. 345, 365. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.