Background
Suzuki Kiitsu was born in Tokyo, 1796. He was an adopted son of Reitan Suzuki, a retainer of the Himeji Clan (Hyogo Prefecture) who was a distinguished disciple of Hoitsu Sakai, noted artist.
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painting
Reeds and Cranes
Moon with Bush Clovers
(Moon with Bush Clovers (萩月図襖) is a pair of two-folded scr...)
Moon with Bush Clovers (萩月図襖) is a pair of two-folded screens made using color on silk. The work represents a scene of nature with bush clovers and an abstracted moon.
Wind God and Thunder God
(Wind God and Thunder God (紙本金地著色風神雷神図) is a pair of four-...)
Wind God and Thunder God (紙本金地著色風神雷神図) is a pair of four-folded screens made using color on silk. It depicts Raijin, the god of lightning, thunder and storms in the Shinto religion and in Japanese mythology, and Fūjin, the god of wind. The work follows a Rinpa tradition of copying and reworking Sōtatsu's original Wind God and Thunder God screen
Wind God and Thunder God
Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn
(Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn is a pair of six-pan...)
Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn is a pair of six-panel byōbu folding screens made by Kiitsu using ink and color on gold-foiled paper. It depicts "a scene of mountain streams flowing through cypress groves highlighted by lilies and a cherry tree with a few red autumn leaves" but the effect of the screens has been described as "somehow strangely unreal" and "[having] a feeling of almost hyperrealism". Another features noted in relation with Kōrin's Irises screens include "the rhythmical feel of the motifs and the brilliance of the blues and greens against the gold ground". The work shows influence of Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Ogata Kōrin and Sakai Hōitsu and has been described as "one of the great masterpieces of Rinpa painting".
Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn
Morning Glories
Kiitsu Suzuki
Edit Profile其一 鈴木
also known as
Tamesaburo, Kiichi, Seisei, Soso
Education
A student of the famous painter Sakai Hoitsu (1761–1828), he was for a long time considered a minor member of Rinpa school of Japanese painting.
Career
Kiitsu is best known for his byōbu folding screens, often a reinterpretation of screens by other Rinpa artists, such as his massive Wind God and Thunder God following Tawaraya Sōtatsu (c. 1570 – c. 1640), Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716) and Hoitsu. But he has been most acclaimed for his original screens, including his famed Morning Glories and Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn.
He was also a notable master with many pupils. Although he was not the official successor of Hoitsu's school, he trained himself many of the Edo Rinpa artists. This has sometimes been labeled as the Kiitsu school of Edo Rinpa.
In recent years his work has been reevaluated and gained recognition, leading to a series of major exhibitions of his art in 2016-2017 in Tokyo, Hyogo and Kyoto.
Works
painting
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Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn
(Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn is a pair of six-pan...)
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Wind God and Thunder God
(Wind God and Thunder God (紙本金地著色風神雷神図) is a pair of four-...)
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Moon with Bush Clovers
(Moon with Bush Clovers (萩月図襖) is a pair of two-folded scr...)
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Reeds and Cranes
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Wind God and Thunder God
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Mountain Stream in Summer and Autumn
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Morning Glories
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