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Art historians do not use any specific
terms to describe the different styles used by Japanese artists who made
non-woodblock printed pictures of flowers-and-birds, despite the fact that
some artists drew their flower-bird subjects much more accurately than
others. This difference in accuracy is also evident in woodblock-printed
flower-bird prints and the terms Nihonga style (i.e., Japanese drawn) and Sōsaku Hanga style (i.e., creative print) are used to
describe this difference. Nihonga artists drew their flower-bird subjects
very accurately while Sōsaku Hanga artists were more creative. In other words, Nihonga artists
copied what they saw in the real world while Sōsaku Hanga artists created images from an imaginary
world. Nihonga artists were influenced by the realistic pictures made by some
European artists while Sōsaku Hanga were influenced by modern western art styles (e.g.,
impressionism, expressionism, pop art, abstraction and surrealism).
In
this chapter the terms Realistic style and Creative style are
used to describe the two major styles used by Japanese artists who made
non-woodblock printed pictures of flowers and birds. Two examples of each of
these two styles are given below, one using color and another using only
shades of gray.
Picture
1: Realistic style in color by Shunkō Tsuchioka, plum (Prunus
mume) and Japanese bush warbler (Cettia diphone).
Picture 2:
Realistic style in shades of gray by Kōsetsu Sakata, florist’s
chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum grandiflorum) and Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer montanus).
Picture 3: Creative style in color by Motoi Ōi,
unknown flower and bird.
Picture 4:
Creative style in shades of gray by Tamaki Yokomizo, unknown flower
and Indian peafowl (Pavo
cristatus).
The names of Japanese artists who used the
realistic style and creative style for their non-woodblock flower-and-bird
prints are given in the table below. An example of each artist’s work is
given in the next chapter.
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Artists who used
the Realistic style
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Artists who used
the Creative style
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Akira Baba
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Akira Fujie
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Akira Kanazaki
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Akira Nakanishi
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Akira Ōke
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Atsushi Uemura
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Chiaki Suwama
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Chikubun Kubota
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Chinami Nakajima
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Eisen Ikeda
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Fumiko Takeda
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Ginkō Adachi
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Gyoshi Kōsoku
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Hakudō Inagaki
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Hidetaka Yamanaka
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Hiromitsu Sakai
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Hiroshi Senju
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Hiroshi Takeyama
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Hitomi Tsumura
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Ikki Matsumoto
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Jun Sato
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Junsaku Koizumi
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Jusō Watanabe
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Kaoru Saitō
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Katsu Sata
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Katsugorō Inoue
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Katsunori Hamanishi
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Kayō Yamaguchi
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Kazuhisa Honda
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Kazuo Inoue
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Kazuo Kakurai
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Kazuo Totsuka
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Keisuke Serizawa
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Kenji Ushiku
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Kitarō Hayashi
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Kōji Ikuta
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Kōji Matsumura
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Kōsetsu Sakata
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Kumiko Kita
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Kuniteru Rakunan
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Masahiro Tabuki
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Masami Iwata
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Masami Yamada
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Masao Kobayashi
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Masao Sekine
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Masayasu Uchida
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Masayuki Miyata
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Masayoshi Kawa
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Michiko S
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Mitsuru Nagashima
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Mutsuo Kawashima
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Naoko Okada
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Nobori Oyama
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Nowaki Tadashi
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Raifu Hirota
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Ryūji Kawano
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S Hisui
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Sanae Yamamoto
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Sawato Fukui
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Shigeki Kuroda
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Shigeru Oda
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Shinichi Gunji
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Shōgetsu Sakai
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Shōko Uemura
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Shunkō Tsuchioka
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Sōhō Ikegami
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Susumu Maki
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Tadashi Ikai
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Taisei Satō
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Takako Manjiyamashita
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Takayoshi Itō
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Tatsuo Kumakura
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Tatsuya Ishiodori
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Tetsuo Tsukahara
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Tokuyama Yamano
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Tomiko Matsuno
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Toshinobu Taguchi
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Toshio Suda
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Yasuyuki Kobayashi
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Yoshihirō Shimoda
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Yoshiki Nonouchi
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Yoshimichi Fujimoto
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Yoshio Itoda
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Yūji Misu
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Yukie Matsui
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Yukio Koga
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Akiko Yoshimura
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Asumi Hayashi
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Atsushi Shimizu
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Aya Yonezawa
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Ayaka Sen
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Chikako Ohtake
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Eiri Yoshiharu
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Fumiaki Mutō
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Fumiko Hori
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George Ueda
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Gō Yayanagi
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Haruna Deguchi
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Hideko Seki
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Hideo Kawahara
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Hiroaki Yoshioka
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Jun'ichi Ubukata
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Kayauko Jinno
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Kayoko Miyayama
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Kazuo Nishimura
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Keiko Arakawa
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Keiko Minami
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Keito Joh
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Kenji Shimizu
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Kichiemon Okamura
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Kimiko Kojima
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Kiyoshi Hasegawa
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Kō Iimure
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Kōichi Sakamoto
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Kōjin Kudō
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Kotarō Yoshioka
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Kumi Obata
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Kyōko Yanagisawa
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Makiko Hattori
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Mari Aoe
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Marino Miura
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Masahiko Saga
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Masahiro Kurita
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Masao Ohba
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Masao Yoshida
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Masuiyama
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Matazō Kayama
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Mikuo Konoki
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Mitsutaka Kawasaki
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Motoi Ōi
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Naoko Tanikawa
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Rei Kasahara
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Ryō Arai
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Saburō Takahashi
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Sadao Satō
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Sadao Watanabe
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Sanpō Shuku
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Seitarō Kuroda
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Seizō Tajima
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Shigeru Matsuzaki
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Shōmei Yoh
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Sumaco Yasui
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Tadayoshi Nakabayashi
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Taeko Satō
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Taira Motomura
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Taisuke Yuki
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Takako Hirano
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Takao Hiwasaki
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Takashi Nakai
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Takeo Sōma
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Tamaki Yokomizo
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Tatsumasa Watanabe
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Tatsuoki Ichino
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Tokujirō Kojima
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Tomomi Hiraishi
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Toshisada Baba
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Wasaburō Hattori
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Yasuko Aoyama
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Yoshiko Sawa
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Yuji Hiratsuka
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Yuki Saitō
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Yukio Katsuda
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