The world of Japanese art suibokuga

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Do you know the SUIBOKUGA?

SUIBOKUGA is art made from sumi-ink　and water and japanese color. SUIBOKUGA is occasionally called The sumi-e painting.The sumi-e painting has a point different from the watercolor.

The point is always chiefly sumi-ink. The color　use　always whole support degree.

which type do you like?

The history of the SUIBOKUGA

SUIBOKUGA was born at the Christian era in China of 618-907 years. Those days' China was dynasties that were called Tang Dynasty.

Do you know an old examination system of China named k?j?（科舉）?

The sumi-e painting was a picture that the senior bureaucrat from whom the start 　had passed the examination named Cacozo had begun to draw.

The bureaucrat and the painter were distinguished as a completely different occupation in old China.

Therefore, the picture that the bureaucrat drew must be different from painter's picture.

Because the bureaucrat is not a painter, the color is'nt　used.

They stuck to the expression of the world only with the Indian ink without using the color.

It is a kind of like an intellectual game.

Afterwards, the sumi-e painting establishes one category as a painting. The sumi-e painting came to Japan before long in diplomacy by the priest and government officials.

Suibokuga　has grown into the japanese style Suibokuga under the influence of japanese climate. We can found　out　difference between Suibokuga and western stile　pictures. One of the difference is paint materials. We paint universe of nature only by Sumi and water.

The sumi-e painting is imported by Japan, and has developed by Tang Dynasty and the diplomacy of Japan as an art that colors buddhist temple, samurai, and aristocrat's pavilions.

Today,Everyone can draw the sumi-e painting even if it doesn't pass the examination of k?j?（科舉）now.

Of course, the painter also．．．．　

That is the art of Suibokuga.

A true sumi-e painting doesn't use the color.

Nature is shown in white and the black.

That stimulates the imagination of the person who sees.

You may imagine what color from the screen.

The sumi-e painting is a very free art.

How to drawing the SUIBOKUGA?

　 sumi is Solid ink. Most valuable Sumi is made from soot of berned pine trees.