Self introduction
Genzan Yano I was born on a cold day of 1957 in Odawara in Japan. I was a very general child who liked to write the picture at infancy and to perform music. Meets the entering zen thought in the junior high school and the influence has been exerted on the current life in no small way. After meets two years ago KOANPRO, all my music is manufactured with KOANPRO & KOANX. Influence People who are influenced me in above all, Is influenced by all the music which has been listened up to now concerning the sound. In the painter writer calligrapher zen clan country, people influenced most are writers. Is being greatly influenced especially by the gold stone person in China. Let's introduce a little because increases too much when the name is enumerated. |
| Hsu Wei@(ΝjMing dynasty (1368-1644) |
| Hsu Wei.also kown as Hsu Wen-ch`ang(1521-1593) was a nativ of Shanyin. Chekinang. His sobriquets were T`ien-ch`ih and Ch`ing-t`eng-lao-jen. He was hailed as a genius of his time and known for his callig-raphy, poems, and paintings as well. But it was not until he had reached his middle age that he began to study art. Hecreated a distinct type in the painting of plants, insects,and figures. Hsu Wei himself felt his callig-raphy excelled his poetry, while his essays were superior to his painting. |
| Wen Chen-Ming (Ά₯Ύj@Ming dynasty (1368-1644) |
| Wen Chen-Ming (1470-1559) was a nativ of Ch`ang-chou, Kiangsu. Originally Wen Cheng-ming`s name was Pi and his familiar name Cheng-ming. Later he was kown by his familar name by his familiar name. Yet another familiar name was Cheng-chung. His other names were T`ing-yun-sheng and Heng-shan Chu-shih. As a devotee of art, he studied closely many of the old masters, but his own originality displayed itself prominently. He first re-ceived guidance from Shen Chou, yet his landscapes differed radically from those of his master, in his pictures of plants and birds one never fails to see astyle that was all his own. In his old age he was held in veneration all over the country as a great artist and perfect gentleman. He was also famous for his achievements in calligraphy. |
| Shih-t`ao (Ξ·j@Ch`ing dynasty (1662-1911) |
| The artist was born Chu Jo-chi,(1642-1707) a descendant of the Ming imperial house and the son of Chu Heng-chia (d.1645), in Kuei-lin (Kwangsi Province). He took the style name Shih-t`ao (stone waves) and the Buddhist name Yuan-chi. He used several other names throughoust his life (Tao-chi is the most familiar to Western audiences). Although his birthdate has long been a subject of debate,the recent discovery of Ch`iu-feng wen-chi (Collected Writings of Ch`iu-feng)allows us to conclude that he was born in 1642. Because of his parentage, he experienced hardships that pushed him into a wandering life at an early age. His father was executed in 1645 after the defeat of Nanking by Ch`ing armies. The young child escaped from his home in Kuei-lin, and he was taken north to Wu-ch`ang,where he became a monk and spendt his youth. At about age twenty Shih-t`ao went east (to Ch`ing-pu-hsien, in Kiangsu) and there studied Ch`an from Lu-an Pen-yueh (?-1676) of the Lin-ch`i sect. He was in Hsuan-ch`eng (Anhwei Provience) by 1670, and there he opened a seminary for the Huang-po sect at Kuang-chiao Temple on Mt. Ching-t`ing, where he lived. While there he became aquainted with the local liter-ati painter Mai Ch`ing(1623-97)Shih-t`ao himself wrote Shih-t`ao hua-yu-lu(Shih-t`ao`s Say-ings on painting), a text that explains his own theories of paint-ing,often based in Ch`an Buddhism. Heclaimed that his painting style was"not based on anything" and that it was a thoroughly new development for landscape painting. |
| Wu Ch`ang-shih (ΰΉΧj Ch`ing dynasty (1662-1911) |
| Wu Ch`ang-shih(1844-1927), together with Chao Chih-ch`ien (1829-84) and Ch`i Pai-shih (1864-1957), is recognized as one of the major painters in the history of modern Chinese painting. He lived in a period of traumatic upheaval : the Opium War beginning in 1840, the Tai-p`ing Rebellion of 1860-64, the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, and the 1911 Revolution which overturned Manchu rule and established the Republic of Chna. The artist, who used many names during his lifetime, was born in Chang-wu-tu`un in the An-chi district of Chekiang Prov-ince, located about sixty kilometers northwest of Hangchow.His family was scattered during the T`aip`ing Rebellion, and his brothers and sisters died tragically of starvation. The artist himself wandered in Hupei and Anhwei Provinces, enduring hardships. From an earyy age he loved scholarship, and after the disturbances had subsided he went, at age twenty-nine, to Shangh-ai. There, and in Soochow and Hangchow, he devoted himself to his studies.His finest paintings date from his sixties and seventies, although he continued to paint actively right up until his death. As the major successor to Chao Chih-ch`ien, his influence on later generations was considerable. |
| Tomioka Tessai (xͺSβVj Japan Jinkou -Taishou (1817-1925) |
| Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) The artist was the second son of Tomioka Korenobu, a maker of Buddhist vestments in Kyoto. He was named Yusuke, but after the Meiji Restoration (1868) he changed his name to Hyakur-en; Tessai was his nickname. Because his hearing was not good his parents decided he should be a scholar, not a merchant. His intellectual foundation was formed from a study of various philos-ophies and classical literature. The instruction that he received from the poetess nun Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) also played a large role in the formation of his character.In the first years of the Meiji Era Tessai served as a priest at Shintou shrines in the Kobe,Nara,and Osaka regions, but he never held a public position. He lived his life as a scholar among the populace, and died on December 31,1924 at the of eighty-nine. Although Tessai was fond of saying " I am a student of Confucianism, not a painter," he painted more than twenty thou-sand paintings over a seventy-year span from age twenty to his death. Concerning his training in painting Tessai said "I plagiar-ize (others` paintings) in my paintinga." Although he emphasized his own solitary study, he probaly had a teacher during his touth.At the core of his painting was his continuation of the literati traditions of the Ming and Ch`ing but he also made bold copies of traditional Yamato-e, Kano and Rinpa school works, and the folk paintings koown as Otsu-e. He followed Tung Ch`ch`ang`s (1555-1636) exhortation to "read ten thousand books and walk ten thousand miles" by collecting and reading ancient and modern Chinese and Japanese books. He also traveled throughout his nativ Japan,beginning with Nagasaki, the only port open to the outside world during the late Edo period.Tessai`s brush strokes became thicker at approximately ten year intervals. After the age of eighty his ink lines faded into colors that cast a lustrous glow to his paintings. Although he painted many themes,landscapes depicting mountain realms of Chnese immortals were most prominent. |
