The Essence of Itō Jakuchū's Colorful Realm of Living Beings

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dc.contributor.advisorWalley, Akiko
dc.contributor.authorSnowdon, Lenore
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-01T15:28:29Z
dc.date.available2017-05-01T15:28:29Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-01
dc.description.abstractThis thesis focuses on the Colorful Realm of Living Beings, a set of thirty-three hanging scrolls by an Edo-period painter named Itō Jakuchū (1716 – 1800). The Colorful Realm was already considered a masterpiece during Jakuchū’s lifetime. This thesis investigates the fundamental question of what made the Colorful Realm effective. The unifying concept is the “essence” of painting in eighteenth-century Kyoto. This study demonstrates that, as a painter immersed in intellectual circles and a devout Buddhist, Jakuchū integrated elements that tapped into ideas about the “essence” of painting in Buddhist, bird-and-flower, and literati painting traditions in the Colorful Realm to produce a set of paintings not simply beautiful, but also fully animated and perfectly appropriate for Buddhist rituals.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/22299
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectItō Jakuchūen_US
dc.titleThe Essence of Itō Jakuchū's Colorful Realm of Living Beings
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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