Tsuji Kako
Born in Kyoto, Tsuji Kakô was trained by Kôno Bairei both in the Maruyama en Shijo schools of painting. His early work shows his great proficiency in both. His style and subject matter were further influenced by Zen training, which he started in 1899. The works he produced in this period established his name in Kyoto as a Zen-influenced, unconventional artist.With the death of the leading masters of both the Shijô and Maruyama schools in the late 1890’s, Tsuji Kakô became one of the leading figures of the new generation, with Takeuchi Seihô, Kikuchi Hôbun, Taniguchi Kôkyô and Yamamoto Shunkyo. Kakô, however, never achieved the same appeal and subsequent status as his contemporaries. This was both due to his individualism, and his lack of social suaveness and interest in the politics of the art-world.The last ten years of the Meiji period, Kakô’s work shows his preoccupation and study of waves, in which his style develops to a highly personal, untraditional, dynamic rendering. Apart from waves, Kakô at this time also explored the use of colour. His unconventional, highly individualistic attitude made him less popular as an artist , though his work was closely watched and commented on in many contemporary articles.
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