Reisai
ARTISTShibata Zeshin was a Japanese lacquer painter and print artist of the late Edo period and early Meiji era. He has been called "Japan's greatest lacquerer", but his reputation as painter and print artist is more complex: In Japan, he is known as both too modern, a panderer to the Westernization movement, and also an overly conservative traditionalist who did nothing to stand out from his contemporaries. Despite holding this complicated reputation in Japan, Zeshin has come to be well regarded and much studied among the art world of the West, in Britain and the United States in particular.
moreBiography adapted from Wikipedia: Shibata Zeshin (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Reisai, wall art & digital downloads
2 works by Reisai (Japanese, 1807–1891) are catalogued on Archive Lane, free to preview and available to download or order as a print.
Shibata Zeshin was a Japanese lacquer painter and print artist of the late Edo period and early Meiji era. He has been called "Japan's greatest lacquerer", but his reputation as painter and print artist is more complex: In Japan, he is known as both too modern, a panderer to the Westernization movement, and also an overly conservative traditionalist who did nothing to stand out from his contemporaries. Despite holding this complicated reputation in Japan, Zeshin has come to be well regarded and much studied among the art world of the West, in Britain and the United States in particular.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of Reisai's work on the site falls under Prints (1), Paintings (1).
By movement, it's catalogued as Muromachi period (1392–1573) (1).
Culture: Japanese (2).
By orientation: 2 portrait.
Dated work in this group ranges from 1449 to 1899.
Other Japanese artists of the period
If you like this artist, these contemporaries are catalogued too:
- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi — 646 artworks
- Imao Keinen — 262 artworks
- Totoya Hokkei — 195 artworks
- Utagawa Toyokuni I — 192 artworks
- Kobayashi Kiyochika — 165 artworks
- Toyokuni Utagawa — 123 artworks
- Kawanabe Kyōsai — 81 artworks
- Utagawa Toyohiro — 64 artworks
Prints of these artworks
Every artwork here can be downloaded as the original high-resolution file, or ordered as a Canvas, Rolled Canvas, Framed Canvas or Framed Print from $21.99, shipping included.
Sizes and framing
Sizes are listed in inches and centimetres, with up to 26 sizes available depending on the print type, from small desk pieces up to large statement pieces. A size that doesn't match this artwork's own proportions is centred and trimmed to fit, and each print type's page states exactly how much of the image that removes.