著者

廣田 孝

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.51, no.1, pp.37-46, 2000-06-30 (Released:2017-05-22)

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TAKEUCHI Seiho was born in 1864 and he started to study traditional Japanese painting under KONO Bairei. In 1886, he attended Ernest F. Fenollosa's lectures on Japanese painting, which made him consider the future of Japanese painting. While many of his contemporary artists tended to adopt Western style in modernizing Japanese painting without much success, Seiho was not particularly impressed by it. He made a careful comparison of Western with Japanese painting and came to the conclusion that what characterized Japanese painting was shai, "expressing the painter's inner lyrical inspiration using what he or she sees out there as a form of expressing it, " upon which he placed special emphasis in his attempt to innovate his painting. Convinced of his original idea after the visit to the 1900 Paris Exhibition, Seiho attempted to transcend the old style which was almost exclusively concerned with umpitu, "brushworking" and to combine shasei, "sketching to grasp the outer characteristics of objects, " with shai, "expressing his inner lyricism." At the same time, he made an effort to attain shohitu, "the utmost simplicity out of which no touch whatso-ever could be eliminated."