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[[Image:Hoitsu - irises.jpg|right|thumb|281px|One of a set of three handscroll paintings by Hôitsu depicting the four seasons and the rising sun.]]

[[Image:Hoitsu - irises.jpg|right|thumb|281px|One of a set of three handscroll paintings by Hôitsu depicting the four seasons and the rising sun.]]

*''Born: [[1761]]''

*''Born: [[1761]]/7/1, [[Edo]]''

*''Died: [[1828]]''

*''Died: [[1828]]/11/29''

*''Other Names'': 酒井忠因 ''(Sakai Tadanao)''; 鶯村 ''([[art-name]]: Uguisumura)''; 庭柏子 ''(art-name: Tei Hakushi)'';　暉真　''(monastic name: Kishin)'';　杜綾　''([[haiku]] name: Toryou)''; 尻焼猿人 ''([[kyôka]] poet name: Shiriyake-no-sarundo)''

*''Japanese'': [[酒井]]抱一 ''(Sakai Houitsu)''

*''Japanese'': [[酒井]]抱一 ''(Sakai Houitsu)''

Sakai Hôitsu was an [[Edo]]-based painter often considered one of the last masters of the [[Rinpa]] style.

Sakai Hôitsu was an [[Edo]]-based painter often considered one of the last masters of the [[Rinpa]] style.

He was born into a samurai family, and began his artistic career painting ''[[bijinga]]'' in the ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' style, but later switched to producing works more purely in the Rinpa mode. His family had been patrons of [[Ogata Korin|Ogata Kôrin]] ([[1658]]-[[1716]]) during Kôrin's life, and owned a number of his works, which Hôitsu then took as inspiration or models. In [[1815]], Hôitsu organized an exhibition of Kôrin's works, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Kôrin's death, and also had published a book entitled ''Kôrin hyakuzu'' ("One Hundred Pictures by Kôrin").

He was born Sakai Tadanao, the second son of the [[Sakai clan]] of [[Himeji han]], and later took on the [[art-name]] (''gô'') Hôitsu, along with numerous other pseudonyms, including [[poetry names]] and a monastic name. He began his artistic career pursuing a variety of talents & interests, including studying [[Kano school|Kanô school]] painting, producing ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' ''[[bijinga]]'' in the style of [[Utagawa Toyoharu]]), and dabbling in both ''[[yamato-e]]'' and Western modes of painting, including the styles of the [[Maruyama-Shijo school|Maruyama-Shijô school]] and [[Ito Jakuchu|Itô Jakuchû]]. After taking the tonsure in [[1797]], however, Hôitsu switched to producing works more purely in the Rinpa mode. His family had been patrons of [[Ogata Korin|Ogata Kôrin]] ([[1658]]-[[1716]]) during Kôrin's life, and owned a number of his works, many of which served as models or inspiration for Hôitsu. Having been born in Edo, however, he tried to create an Edo brand of Rinpa (in contrast to the Kyoto Rinpa of Ogata Kôrin and his predecessors, [[Honami Koetsu|Hon'ami Kôetsu]] and [[Tawaraya Sotatsu|Tawaraya Sôtatsu]]), including Edo themes such as [[Mt. Fuji]] and morning glories (''asagao'') in his paintings.

Among students of Hôitsu, [[Suzuki Kiitsu]] is perhaps the most famous today.

Towards the end of [[1809]], opened his own artist's studio in [[Negishi]], called Ugean (雨華庵). In [[1815]], Hôitsu organized an exhibition of Kôrin's works, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Kôrin's death, and also had published a book entitled ''Kôrin hyakuzu'' ("One Hundred Pictures by Kôrin"). Hôitsu was closely connected with intellectual and cultural circles in Edo, and an 1820 painting believed to have been created for his 60th birthday, or at a New Year's celebration, includes contributions from a total of sixty-nine artists, poets, and other prominent figures, including [[Watanabe Kazan]], [[Tani Buncho|Tani Bunchô]], and Hôitsu himself.<ref>"[http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/60012949 Miscellaneous Paintings and Calligraphy for the Third Year of the Bunsei Era]." Metropolitan Museum of Art.</ref> The majority of his most famous works are believed to have been produced around this time, and in the following years, when Hôitsu was in his sixties. At least one of his works, a pair of folding screens depicting waves against a silver-foil background, based on a painting by Kôrin, is today a [[National Treasure]]. Hôitsu also produced throughout his life, in addition to Rinpa paintings, ''[[haiku]]'' and ''[[haiga]]'' (simple playful paintings in the spirit of haiku).

 

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