Japan Art and Suzuki Shônen: Edo to Taisho
Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
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Suzuki Shônen was born during the late Edo Period in the 1840s and died during the Taisho Period (1912-1926) in 1918. Accordingly, he developed artistically during the dynamic Meiji Period (1868-1912).
His father gave him a firm background in the world of art. Hence, the cultural cities of Kyoto, Koyosan, and Nara – along with the Middle Kingdom (China) – and other cultural traits impacted Shônen.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art says, “Together with his father, Suzuki Hyakunen, Shonen was one of the leading painters active in Kyoto during the Meiji period…”
Shônen – despite the artistic influence of his father – still developed an individualistic approach to art.
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Overall, Shônen was blessed with an independent spirit in the realm of art and creativity – and in opposing the whims of the Meiji artistic elites.
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