The life and afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, artist-rebel of Edo / / by Miriam Wattles.

• Superior document: Japanese visual culture ; v. 10
• Author: Wattles, Miriam.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hanabusa, Itchō, 1652-1724.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Japanese Visual Culture 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 pages) :; colored illustrations.

Miriam Wattles recounts the making of Hanabusa Itchō (1652-1724), painter, haikai-poet, singer-songwriter, and artist subversive, in The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Artist-Rebel of Edo . Translating literary motifs visually to encapsulate the tensions of his time, many of Itchō’s original works became models emulated by ukiyo-e and other artists. A wide array of sources reveals a lifetime of multiple personas and positions that are the source of his multifarious artistic reincarnations. While, on the one hand, his legend as seditious exile appears in the fictional cross-media worlds of theater, novels, and prints, on the other hand, factual accounts of his complicated artistic life reveal an important figure within the first artists’ biographies of early modern Japan.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Multiple Names for Many Personas -- Island Itchō -- Hanabusa Itchō: Head of the Studio -- Tangled in Scandal: Manuscript Culture -- Poetically Evoked: Songs, Poems, and Pictures in Print -- Objectivity and Atmosphere: Biographies to Journals -- Gossip Afloat: The Promiscuity of the Asazuma Boat -- Epilogue -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- List of Characters -- Index.