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Ito Jakuchu

1716-1800

TIGER


Ito Jakuchu<BR>Permission to use image
given by Shin'enKan Foundation.

Ito Jakuchu was born in Kyoto in Japan. His father was a rich groceryman. The grocery shop had been in his family for four generations, and the family lived at the shop. He was 23 years old when his father died, and he inherited the business. He didn't really want to be a businessman, so after a few years, he let his younger brother run the shop, and he spent the rest of his life painting.

Jakuchu enjoyed painting pictures of birds, and in his garden he kept all kinds of birds that he could use as subjects in his paintings.

In order to learn how to paint, he copied Chinese paintings, perhaps thousands of them. Then he got tired of just copying the paintings of other artists and decided to paint what he saw. He would watch the birds and other fowl in his garden and then paint those animals.

When he painted The Tiger, he could not paint from a live model because there were no tigers in Japan, so he copied a picture that a Chinese artist had painted.

You will enjoy looking at the paintings of Roosters and Hens. The roosters shown are the Yokohama variety. These roosters had tails that could grow to be 26 feet long!

Jakuchu lived to be 85 years old and never married.

He did not enjoy fame for his painting during his lifetime. People only began to become interested in his works after he had been gone for a hundred years or more.

In the year 2000, which was 200 years after his death, the Kyoto National Museum featured a showing of his artworks.

This biography was written by Patsy Stevens, a retired teacher.

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2011-05-04
His artwork is unique. you can't find anything like it and that's what I love most about it. It is beautiful in it's own way. I can't imagine being a painter like him. I love how he puts not that much detail. it's just makes it so different from all the other artists and their artwork
Nobody
2010-09-13
His artwork is awsome and beautiful its better than mine i wish i could draw like him and become a artist
Jenny
2009-02-24
its wonderful
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