Background

Tanomura Chokunyu was born on March 31, 1814 in Taketa, Oita, Japan. He was the 3rd son of Sannomiya Denuemon, Samurai of Oka clan and the last man of the Bunjin-Ga style painters.

Education

Because Chokunyu's uncle, Watanabe Hohto was Tanomura Chikuden's teacher, he entered Chikuden's painting school. Tanomura was good at composing Chinese poems, Neo-Confucianism, Zen practices, Japanese tea ceremony, incense burning, swordplay and using spear.

Career

After the Meiji Restoration, Tanomura participated in establishing the Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting and he became the first school principal. In 1896, Chokunyu established the Nihon Nanga-In in cooperation with Tomioka Tessai and Taniguchi Aizan. He helped to organize many art exhibitions and was honored on many occasions. Tanomura first modeled his painting style after his teacher's but later absorbed old techniques and was especially good in minute description of landscapes.

Works

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• painting

  • 观音

  • A Two-Fold Paper Screen

    1895

  • A PAIR OF SIX-FOLD PAINTED SCREENS MEIJI PERIOD

    1881

  • Fishing boat in Autumn

    1902

  • Landscape Hanging scroll

  • Landscape

  • Untitled

  • View of Egami

  • Landscape paintings

Connections

Father:

Sannomiya Denuemo

colleague:

Tomioka Tessai

colleague:

Aizan Taniguchi