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Tanaka Yûbi was a prominent [[Nihonga]] painter of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] through early Shôwa periods. He is perhaps best known for a pair of series of handscroll paintings depicting the lives and accomplishments of [[Sanjo Sanetomi|Sanjô Sanetomi]] and [[Iwakura Tomomi]], and for another set of handscrolls depicting the funeral of the [[Meiji Emperor]] (「御大葬之図」). All of these remain in the [[Sannomaru Shozokan|Imperial Collections]] today.
Tanaka Yûbi was a prominent [[Nihonga]] painter of the [[Meiji period|Meiji]] through early Shôwa periods. He is perhaps best known for a pair of series of handscroll paintings depicting the lives and accomplishments of [[Sanjo Sanetomi|Sanjô Sanetomi]] and [[Iwakura Tomomi]], and for another set of handscrolls depicting the funeral of the [[Meiji Emperor]] (「御大葬之図」). All of these remain in the [[Sannomaru Shozokan|Imperial Collections]] today.
Born and raised in [[Yamashiro province]], Yûbi came into the service of the Imperial Court through his apprenticeship to his cousin [[Okada Tamechika]], and became a playmate for the young Meiji Emperor. He was officially named Imperial court painter in [[1884]].
Born and raised in [[Yamashiro province]], Yûbi studied ''[[yamato-e]]'' under [[Reizei Tamechika]] in Kyoto, and came into the service of the Imperial Court through his apprenticeship to his cousin [[Okada Tamechika]], becoming a playmate for the young Meiji Emperor. He was officially named Imperial court painter in [[1884]].
The series of 21 scroll paintings depicting the events and accomplishments of Iwakura Tomomi's life were commissioned the Court around 1890, following Iwakura's death in [[1883]]. They were never completed, however, and survive only in an unfinished, preparatory form. Yûbi's 24-scroll Sanjô Sanetomi series, by contrast, commissioned by the Court in [[1900]], was completed on lavish gold-flecked paper, with introductions on each scroll in elegant calligraphy accompanied by sketches of flowering or fruiting tree branches. On both of these sets, Yûbi employed bold, deep ''[[Nihonga]]'' colors; while the Iwakura scrolls, perhaps because of their preparatory nature, leave much of the background space empty, as in earlier, more traditional-style ''yamato-e'' painting, the Sanjô scrolls incorporate thoroughly filled-in background scenes.
Tanaka did two further prominent commissions for the Court of a similar type. One was a set of fifteen scrolls, commissioned in [[1904]], depicting the accomplishments and events of the life of [[Sanjo Sanetsumu|Sanjô Sanetsumu]] ([[1802]]-[[1859]]), father of Sanetomi. These scrolls include depictions of, among many other events, the destruction of the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]] in an [[1854]] fire, its reconstruction, and the signing of the [[Harris Treaty]] in [[1858]].
Tanaka's final Imperial commission was a set of four scrolls depicting the funeral procession of the [[Meiji Emperor]]. Completed in [[1913]], just one year after the Emperor's death, these images also include depictions of the funeral train which carried the Emperor's body from [[Tokyo]] to [[Kyoto]].
Tanaka died on 1933/2/20.
Tanaka died on 1933/2/20.
==References==
==References==
*Gallery labels, "[http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/event/sannomaru/tenrankai66.html The two people who supported Emperor Meiji - Sanjo Sanetomi and Iwakura Tomomi - an account of the late Edo period to the Meiji Restoration in biographical picture scrolls]," The Museum of the Imperial Collections, [[Sannomaru Shozokan|Sannomaru Shôzôkan]], September 2014.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E6%9C%89%E7%BE%8E?dic=nihonjinmei&oid=60133040 Tanaka Yûbi]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha, 2009.
*"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E6%9C%89%E7%BE%8E?dic=nihonjinmei&oid=60133040 Tanaka Yûbi]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha, 2009.
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