Kanō Sansetsu 1590–1651・Japan
カクカク曲がる老梅、ふしぎ系の狩野派The Kanō painter of strange, zigzag plum trees.
肥前（今の佐賀県）の出身で、京都の狩野山楽の弟子となり、のちに娘むことして家をつぎました。狩野派の多くが江戸へ移ったあとも京都に残った「京狩野」の画家です。幾何学のようにきっちりした構図と、ねじれたりカクカク曲がったりする不思議な形が特徴で、近年とても人気が高まっています。
Sansetsu came from Hizen, now Saga. He became a pupil of Kanō Sanraku in Kyoto, married his daughter and took over the family. When most of the Kanō school moved to Edo, his line stayed in Kyoto and was called the Kyoto Kanō. His work has strict, almost geometric compositions and strange twisting shapes. He has become very popular in recent years.
カクカクと折れ曲がる梅の木を描いたふすま絵《老梅図》は、今はニューヨークのメトロポリタン美術館にあります。もとは京都・妙心寺の天祥院のふすまでした。
Old Plum, with its zigzag branches, is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It was first painted on sliding doors at Tenshō-in, part of Myōshin-ji temple in Kyoto.
山雪がまとめはじめた日本の画家の歴史を、息子の永納が『本朝画史』として完成させました。雪舟の涙のネズミの話もこの本にのっています。
Sansetsu began a history of Japanese painters, and his son Einō finished it as Honchō gashi. The legend of Sesshū's tear-drawn mouse appears in this book.
