Copying Shinkeizu (True-view Paintings) : Concerning Painters Connected to TAKEMOTO Totoan Such as ONISHI Keisai and OHARA Toya

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  • 真景図を写す : 武元登々庵をめぐる画家 大西圭斎と大原東野
  • シンケイズ オ ウツス : ブ ゲントウクリカエシアン オ メグル ガカ オオニシ ケイサイ ト オオハラ ヒガシノ

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From 1799 to 1800, the famous poet and calligrapher Takemoto Totoan (1767-1818) travelled around Oshu in the Tohoku region with the painter Onishi Keisai. Totoan later commissioned another painter to create the hand scroll Totoan Oyu Shigakan (Poems and Paintings from Totoan’s Journey to Oshu ; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History, Koyo Sekiyo bunko, Kan Chazan Collection), which depicts four views from the journey based on true-view sketches by Keisai. Totoan showed this scroll to Kan Chazan, a famous Confucian scholar, who then had another painter make an album after Keisai’s sketches that bears the same title as the scroll: Totoan Oyu Shiga (Poems and Paintings from Totoan’s Journey to Oshu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History, Koyo Sekiyo bunko,Kan Chazan Colleciton). Moreover, Chazan’s pupil, Matsumoto Moshu, who was also known as the wealthy merchant Izumiya Jiemon of Onomichi, painted Ohi Sansho (Three Secret Views of Oshu ; Okayama Prifectural Museum) based on the scroll. Thus, a number of painters were depicting views that Totoan, not they, had witnessed.

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