Fukae Roshu. Fukae Roshu; born 1699 in Kyoto; died May 25, 1757 was a Japanese painter of the Rimpa style of the middle Edo period.
Fukae Roshu was born the eldest son of Fukae Shōzaemon, an employee who worked for the state mint. Fukae is, along with Watanabe Shiko, the most important student of Ogata Korin, who was also closely related to the mint.
Fukae worked in the Kōrin style, but his pictures show a simpler decorative style that reminds one of the time before Kōrin, of Tawaraya Sotatsu. Fukae died at the age of 58, he was buried in Saiun-in, a sub-temple of Konkaikomyō-ji in Kyoto.
His most famous works are the screen Narrow Way and Ivy with the dimensions 132.4 × 264.4 cm in the National Museum Tokyo, the very similar one Screen in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the screen, formerly in the Kyūkyodō collection.
Fukae Roshu was born the eldest son of Fukae Shōzaemon, an employee who worked for the state mint. Fukae is, along with Watanabe Shiko, the most important student of Ogata Korin, who was also closely related to the mint.
Fukae worked in the Kōrin style, but his pictures show a simpler decorative style that reminds one of the time before Kōrin, of Tawaraya Sotatsu. Fukae died at the age of 58, he was buried in Saiun-in, a sub-temple of Konkaikomyō-ji in Kyoto.
His most famous works are the screen Narrow Way and Ivy with the dimensions 132.4 × 264.4 cm in the National Museum Tokyo, the very similar one Screen in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the screen, formerly in the Kyūkyodō collection.
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