This article is written by Jingzhi
"Live in the moment, enjoy the moonlight, snow, cherry blossoms and bright red maple leaves, sing indulgently, drink sake, forget the troubles of reality, get rid of the troubles in front of you, no longer discouraged, like a hollow pumpkin, floating in a trickle, this is the so-called floating world." 」 - "Ukiyo Story"
Ukiyo-e of the Edo period is a painting depicting the customs of the human world. The spirit of the mountains and rivers, the wind and moon, the fireworks of the flower street willow lane, all the glitz, all of them. This endless layer of excitement comes from the unique painter.
Katsushika Eiko, the painting number Katsushika should be, is the third daughter of the realist master Katsushika Hokusai. Among the many schools of ukiyo-e painters, Ei was a genius at reconciling light and shadow, hence the name "Edo Rembrandt".
To commemorate her life of dedication to art, Japan's NHK launched the drama "Vertigo: Daughter of Hokusai" in 2017.
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"This world is made of circles and lines..." Hokusai followed the temptation and handed the brush to his young daughter in his arms.
"For the first time in my life, I held the pen in my hand, which filled my heart with emotion and joy, and made me dazzled." Since then, it has been out of control.
The drunken woman should be one of the painting numbers of Rong's later years. But since she was young, she has been immersed in ukiyo-e painting: her husband's clumsy painting skills are not worthy of her, and the new marriage has ended after three years. Rong was not interested in ignoring the gossip, and she quickly joined the ranks of Hokusai's disciples and became her father's helper.
On that day, there was a fire in the south of Edo Castle, and the crowd watched and sighed. Only Rong excitedly climbed to a high place, looked at the strange colors of burning on the other side of the river, and sighed the wonder of creation.
"It's hopeless, you must be thinking about how to draw that color again." Ikeda Zenjiro, a former samurai and now a painter of the wind, entered her life.
"Mr. Good, why are you here?"
"Like you, you're curious."
Rong was seen through, but did not want to admit it: "Curious? What crazy words, everyone is obviously very worried. ”
Not crazy, not alive. Two painters with common understanding began to make contact. Rong fiddled with the palette to prepare for orchid painting (Western painting), and Shan felt that she actually longed for a more unique color scheme; Rong said that her father's painting made her feel enlightened, but Shan suggested that she create her own style. Communication with a sharp mind is often like this, it seems to be saying its own thing, but a sentence and a point can always hit the soul just right.
She still went with him, Yoshihara, Flower Street Willow Lane.
The word "ukiyo-e" comes from the Buddhist family. But in Japan, it is inseparable from the culture of eroticism.
This is the tacit understanding of the cooperation between Aoi Miyazaki and Ryuhei Matsuda: the kimono dances with falling flowers, and the clogs step on the fragrance of the earth. A pair of free-spirited young men and women, wandering in the noise of the streets and alleys, no one around, laughing wildly, singing softly:
"If the bird becomes a crow,
Fly to the master's house.
Slippery, slippery, slippery
Twitter..."
On the Sumida River, under the Ryogoku Bridge, the ferry boat ripples with strange throbbing and sails into the enchanting spring light.
Shan invites Rong to dance with the geisha, but Rong's eyes are only changing colors and light.
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If you gaze closely, you will find that everything in this world is composed of shades of color. People's faces and bodies are also different in different colors under different lights, and the color of places with strong light will become lighter, and the color of places with dim light will become darker. In this way, it turned out to be light, and it was light and shadow that constituted colors and shapes. ”
This was the inspiration that Ei got from his work at the Yoshihara Geisha. However, based on this theory, the creation of orchid paintings is not satisfactory.
"I feel that the author's painting skills can't keep up with his inner thoughts." This harsh comment deeply stung Rong.
"In fact, I have never been satisfied with myself, always thinking that I want to paint better, more refined, more beautiful." But the inspiration of thought is always as difficult to capture as a flash in the pan. "Father showed up when he needed it most. But when she perked up, her father fell.
Miserable night and rain, sick bed sadness.
"It's the tenth day, and my father should have learned to hold a pen."
The mother played by Yu Kimiko is a gentle and trivial housewife, who cannot understand this "unfilial language" and feels that Rong is too selfish and too excessive. But only Ei knows that ukiyo-e is his father's life.
In the end, it was the confidant who saved the confidant. Teacher Ma Qin, who had not cooperated with Hokusai for more than twenty years, came to the front of the bed, and a mockery and questioning made him miraculously wake up.
Sudden plots can always disrupt the rhythm of life. My father recovered well from the adjunctive treatment of folk remedies, but my mother passed away.
Rong found that he cared so little about his mother. She is not ruthless, but she puts all her emotions into the pen and puts all her impulses into color. Rong didn't even have time to grieve, and he was quickly attracted to the Prussian blue in the good painting.
"The gentleness of goodness is poison, but I eventually drank to quench my thirst. I felt a pang of dizziness. ”
One night pillow wind, I thought it was only one night.
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"Edo often catches fire day and night, and the flames make the sky red, showing a red color that does not belong to the morning glow nor to the sunset." A fire, goodness has never been traced since. Some say he's not dead, and Rong didn't look for him.
Fires don't all come with bad news. The fine engravings of many of the workshops were destroyed. This gave Hokusai a chance to show his skills.
From farmers working in the rice fields of the countryside to fishermen in Kanagawa who fight against the tides of the sea. From the snow falling at Asakusa Honganji Temple in winter, to "Kaifeng Fast And Sunny" in the late spring and early autumn and against the background of the slanting sun. Between the knives and pens, it is natural. The Thirty-Six Views of Fugaku was circulated in various countries in Japan. From Matsuzen in the north to Sashu in the south, Katsushika Hokusai's name has been well known ever since.
The water rose, and at this time, Rong's fame gradually spread. The returning Shan had long since given up painting and opened a geisha. The two have been separated for several years, but it seems that they have never been apart for a moment.
"In the darkness of the night, there are endless lights and shadows. With the background of darkness, light can take on endless colors. This woman is chanting poetry by the light of a lantern, and at night she will be able to write verses that cannot be written during the day. Rong was interested in introducing his upcoming new work, "Night Cherry Beauty", and immersed himself in the conception of light and shadow, illusion and reality. Shan suddenly choked up: "To me, you are also my light, dazzling, dazzling light." ”
Shan left, and Rong grabbed the pen.
As night falls, dreams and reality merge and jump on paper.
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In the first year of Kaei, summer, Eisen Kei, Zenjiro Ikeda, resignation.
Rong hurriedly caught up with Shan's funeral ceremony. Her grief seemed to gush out several times, but it was finally calm.
Shan's understanding of ukiyo-e, like his love for Ei, has long been included in Ei's paintings and has become the soul memory of art.
"The young geisha in the middle must not like to do the inside. I wonder if one day I will become as uneasy as Hua Kui – but I love playing the piano and my guests will be happy because of it.
On the left is a graceful female artist, twenty-five or sixteen, who loves a man in her heart, but her love has not been fulfilled, and she now has an age to be her father's husband - although I am dissatisfied with the status quo, I am very skilled in playing shamisen.
Playing the huqin on the right is a woman from the town, the only daughter of a merchant family, who has been arranged to recruit a son-in-law from a distant relative's family since childhood. Her fiancé is vassal of elegance..."
This is Rong's "Three Ensembles", these three geisha are based on the three sisters of Shan, who, when she writes, gives each character a unique story, which is the soul of painting. Even Hokusai admitted that if you paint a geisha, Sakae's skills are stronger than mine.
When Hokusai was 90 years old, the "Fuji-Etsu dragon diagram" completed by his father and daughter was considered to be his masterpiece. Nowadays, most people only know that prints promoted the spread of ukiyo-e. In fact, during the Edo period, such a meat pen (hand-drawn) was more cherished by the people of the times. The snow-capped peaks were swept away by Rong's brush. The dying Hokusai is as stable as it was then, and the talent is even more prosperous. A few gentle strokes, the ink and ink are smudged layer by layer, and an untamed dragon suddenly rushes into the bull fight. As the saying goes, skills can enter the Tao, and art can penetrate God.
"Give me another ten years, no, five years, and I'll be a real painter." At the time of his death, Hokusai still refused to put down the pen in his hand.
Rong looked at his father's body and cried out, "I also want to paint better." ”
Sakae is getting old, and the Edo era has come to an end. The black ship has arrived, and the ground is shaking. But people's interest in finding flowers and asking for willows is never diminished by anything. Sakae wandered outside Of Shin Yoshihara and remembered yozen's first visit to a geisha. She was no longer fit to be in the wind and moon field. Standing outside the fence and looking at the geisha dancing inside, the strong chiaroscuro stimulates the senses of the spectators. In the world of light and shadow, she has a deeper understanding. The pinnacle of the "Diagram of Yoshihara Grid" was thus formed.
"Yes, that's the light. The world is made up of light and shadow. Shadows shape all things, and the light is to bring them out. ”
At the age of 67, Rong left home. As she walked on the bridge, a group of playful children surrounded her and scattered. Rong is like a dilapidated boat, swaying in the wind, humming softly in his mouth, still the same song that Heshan sang together:
Fly to the master's house.
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