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Imao Keinen (1845-1924)

Imao Keinen was born in Kyoto, his original name was Imao Isaburo. He studied ukiyo-e painting with Umegata Tokyo and other Japanese styles with Suzuki Hyakunen. In 1880, he began to teach as a professor at the Kyoto Prefecture School of Painting. In 1904, he became a member of the Art Committee of the Imperial Household and a Member of the Imperial Art Academy in 1919. An important Japanese style painter, Keinen specialized in Kacho-ga (Flower and Bird prints) with very realistic detail. He is best known for “Bird and Flower Albums by Keinen”, 1891, a set of 4 volumes, each containing 40 prints, published by Nishimura Soemon, carved by Tanaka Hirokichi and printed by Miki Jinzaburo.


 

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Artist Bio Index:


18th & 19th
C. Artists:

Hiroshige
Chikanobu
Eisen
Eizan
Gakutei
Hirosada

Hiroshige II
Hokusai
Kunichika
Kunisada

Kuniyoshi
Kyosai (Gyosai)
Shunsho
Toyokuni I

Toyokuni III
Yoshitoshi


20th C. Artists:

Bertha Lum
Charles Bartlett
Chiura Obata
Clifton Karhu
Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
Elizabeth Keith
Hajime Namiki
Haku Maki
Hashiguchi Goyo
Helen Hyde
Hiroshi Yoshida
Ito Shinsui
Joichi Hoshi
Katsunori Hamanishi
Kawase Hasui
Kawase Hasui   (Posthumous)
Kiyoshi Saito
Koshiro Onchi
Ohara Shoson
  (Koson)
Paul Jacoulet
Ryohei Tanaka
Sadao Watanabe

Shigeki Kuroda
Shinichi Nakazawa
Shiro Kasamatsu
Yamamoto Shoun
Sugiura
Tadashi Nakayama
Takahashi Hiroaki   (Shotei)
Toko Shinoda
Tomoo Inagaki
Toraji Ishikawa

Torii Kotondo
Toshi Yoshida

Tsuchiya Koitsu
Tsuruya Kokei
Umetaro Azechi
Unichi Hiratsuka
Yoshitoshi Mori
Yuji Hiratsuka


China Trade:

Auguste Borget
Chinese School
Edward Hildebrandt Thomas Allom
William Alexander


Modern Originals:

Carol Jessen      


Natural History:

J. James Audubon Mark Catesby John Gould

 


Antique Maps:

Conrad Lotter
Gilles Robert

Gerard de Jode
Henricus Hondius

Jan Huygen
John Tallis

Matthaeus Seutter
Nicolas Sanson




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