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*''Born: [[1578]]''
*''Born: [[1578]]''
*''Died: [[1650]]''
*''Died: [[1650]]''
*''Other Names: Iwasa Katsumochi''
*''Japanese'': 岩佐又兵衛 ''(Iwasa Matabei)''
*''Japanese'': 岩佐又兵衛 ''(Iwasa Matabei)''
Iwasa Matabei was among the pioneers of ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' ("Pictures of the Floating World") painting. Originally a student of the [[Tosa school]], at some point in the early 17th century, he left the school to pursue a more popular (commoner) style of painting, producing [[genre paintings]] and other works often considered to be either among the earliest works of ''ukiyo-e'', or significant forerunners to true ''ukiyo-e''.
Iwasa Matabei was among the pioneers of ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' ("Pictures of the Floating World") painting. Originally a student of the [[Tosa school|Tosa]] and [[Kano school|Kanô schools]] of painting, at some point in the early 17th century, he left the school to pursue a more popular (commoner) style of painting, producing [[genre paintings]] and other works often considered to be either among the earliest works of ''ukiyo-e'', or significant forerunners to true ''ukiyo-e''.
The son of a [[Sengoku period]] warlord whose family was destroyed by [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1579]], Matabei studied under masters of both the Tosa and Kanô schools, developing an expert hand at both Chinese and Japanese styles of painting. At some point early in the 17th century, he was commissioned by [[Matsudaira Tadanao]] (lord of [[Echizen han]] and grandson of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]) to produce works for the wedding trousseau of a daughter of [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]].<ref>Christine Guth, ''Art of Edo Japan'', Yale University Press (1996), 98.</ref>
The eponymous character of Matahei in [[Chikamatsu Monzaemon|Chikamatsu Monzaemon's]] play ''[[Domo-mata]]'' is based on Matabei.
The eponymous character of Matahei in [[Chikamatsu Monzaemon|Chikamatsu Monzaemon's]] play ''[[Domo-mata]]'' is based on Matabei.
==References==
==References==
*Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 24.
*Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 24.
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