Nanga
南画
Movement · style · 18th century–19th century
Japanese painting after the ideal of the Chinese scholar-amateurs (see bunjinga): landscapes and the “four gentlemen” in ink and light colour, learnt largely from Chinese printed manuals such as the Mustard-Seed Garden Manual of Painting1. Dates. A native school calling itself bunjinga arose only in the early 18th century, with Gion Nankai (1677–1751), Yanagisawa Kien and Sakaki Hyakusen; its great masters were Ike Taiga and Yosa Buson, followed in the 19th century by Uragami Gyokudō, Tanomura Chikuden and Tani Bunchō2. In the Meiji period it continued with Tomioka Tessai (1837–1924) but lost ground to yōga and nihonga3. Mason 2005, pp. 326–327. ↩ Ebd., pp. 326–343. ↩ Ebd., p. 361. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.