Taki, Katei

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Taki, Katei

Biography

Taki Katei was one of the most successful painters of his generation. Born in Edo, he studied painting from an early age and in 1851 travelled to Nagasaki for a more authentic education in Chinese-style painting. After ten years as an itinerant painter in the north of Japan, he returned to Edo in 1866 and thereafter gradually established his reputation, contributing to the Sinophile cultural circle and gaining commissions for the imperial household (including paintings for the new palace). From the late 1880s he was a leading member of the Japan Art Association (Nihon Bijutsu Kyokai) and in 1893 he received the prestigious appointment as an Imperial Household Artist (one of only six painters at the time).

In Japanese culture a person's family name comes first, so this artist's name is written Taki Takei.

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