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Suzuki Kiitsu (1795 - 1858)

Suzuki Kiitsu (1795 - 1858)

        
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Product code: K0215
Title: Chrysanthemum Festival
Artist: Suzuki Kiitsu (1795 - 1858)
Media: Silk, colored, scroll binding, signature, seal
Size: 113.3×41.5cm / mounting 209×57cm
Remarks: Original box / Nezu family seal, Ivory Jikusaki
Published in the "Auction Catalog No. 65, Tokyo Art Club, 1918"

Suzuki Kiitsu was one of the leading painters of the “Edo Rimpa” tradition in the late Edo period. While inheriting the lineage of his teacher Sakai Hōitsu, he is particularly admired for achieving an exceptional balance between decorative brilliance and keen observation from life. Working in Hōitsu’s circle, Kiitsu absorbed the classical Rimpa heritage—especially the design vocabulary associated with Ogata Kōrin—and went on to renew the tradition through a wide range of formats. Beyond folding screens and hanging scrolls, he produced bijinga (images of beauties), genre scenes, and illustrations, expanding a sumptuous pictorial world closely tied to the vibrant chōnin (townspeople) culture of Edo.
The distinctive appeal of his work lies in its crisp, sharply defined contours, luminous color, and a compositional intelligence that feels as if the entire surface has been “designed.” His images remain calm and poised, yet rise with a pronounced sense of rhythm. Kiitsu’s bold handling of space and his modern sensitivity to color fields—qualities that seem to exceed the conventions of the nineteenth century—have prompted renewed appreciation, linking his achievement to later developments in Japanese painting, crafts, and even modern design. Today, he is regarded not merely as Hōitsu’s successor, but as a central Rimpa artist who established a style unmistakably his own.

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