matsukawa hanzan

Hanzan Matsukawa (Matsukawa Hanzan, first year of Bunsei <1818> --October 21, 1882>) is an ukiyo-e artist from Osaka from the late Edo period to the Meiji period.

A master of Sugamatsumine. His real surname is his wife and his first name is Yasunobu. Known as Kouji. The character is Lord Yoshi. It is called Suieido, Kasui, Naomizu, etc. Born on the shores of Ishiya Bridge in Nishi-Yokobori, Osaka, as a child of Kyoka singer Onigintei Rikimaru, Tameichi Matsukawa (1774-1848). At the age of 12, he studied painting with Sugamatsumine and studied the painting styles of his teachers such as Niwa Tokei and Okada Gyokuzan to form a family. He specializes in landscape painting, and in partnership with Kanenari Akatsuki at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, he wrote paintings for famous places such as "Keihan Meisho Zue", and left behind illustrations for "Namihana Shimbun" (discontinued in November 1877) and military records. There is.

As a representative work, "List of both banks of the Yodogawa River" published in the first year of Bunkyu (1861) in a geography written by Kanenari Akatsuki, and a miscellaneous haiku book published in Kaei 3 (1850) edited by Koryu Unwatei There are three volumes and three volumes of "Eguchi Aifukube no Tsuru". In addition, there are 3 volumes of the Buddhist book "Amida Keiwa Kunzukai", 5 volumes of the reading "Left Sword Kidan", 10 volumes of the second part of "Picture Book Toyomi Ryukyu Gunki" published in 1864, and "Jiguchi". Two volumes of "andon" (published year unknown) and illustrations of Masayoshi Tsuchiya's novel "Picture Book Ishiyama Gunki", volume 10 and volume 30 (Meiji 14–16 (1881–1883)) are also known. ..

After the Meiji Restoration, he participated in the creation of textbooks for the Ministry of Education and books that quickly incorporated the prosperity and customs of civilized cities, and worked on paintings and math instruction books from calligraphy. He died on November 22, 1882 (Meiji 15). Age 65.

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