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Imao Keinen

was a Japanese painter and print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement. In 1904 he became a member of the Art Committee and was appointed as an Imperial Household Artist.

Biography

From the age of 12, Keinen received a comprehensive education in various Japanese art styles: classical Japanese painting, printmaking, and calligraphy. In 1880 he received a professorship at the Kyoto School of Painting. Following the publication of the ' album in 1892, he became a member of the Art Committee of the imperial court and in 1919 a member of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts.

The ' (景年花鳥畫譜), published in 1892, is an album with an extensive series of bird-and-flower (') in woodblock print.

His works are part of many museum collections throughout the world.

References

Further reading

  • Louise Norton Brown, Book Illustration in Japan (New York: Routledge, 1924), 198–201.
  • Jack Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, vol. 2 (London: Sotheby's, 1987), 800, 969.
  • Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992), 41.

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