Tani Bunchō
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Tani Bunchō (谷文晁) (1763 - January 6, 1840) was a Japanese literati (bunjin) painter and poet.
Like most bunjinga painters of his time, Bunchō focused largely on Chinese-inspired landscapes. Since travel outside Japan was forbidden under the Tokugawa shogunate, Bunchō was unable to study in China; he spent many years in Nagasaki, therefore, studying Chinese art and Western art (洋画, Yōga) with the traders there.
Watanabe Kazan and Takaku Aigai were among his disciples.
[edit] References
- Frederic, Louis (2002). "Japan Encyclopedia." Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
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