The life and afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, artist-rebel of Edo / by Miriam Wattles.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-268) and indexes.

The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Artist-Rebel of Edo; Dedication; Contents; Preface; INTRODUCTION; Peak Generational Moments; Legend and Biography; School and Genre; Itchō as Haiga Artist; Itchō, "Founder of Giga"; Itchō and Ukiyo-e; PART ONE: A LIFE; 1 MULTIPLE NAMES FOR MANY PERSONAS; Mapping Itchō's Personas in Time and Place; Becoming a Kanō Painter: Yasuo/Shūrinsai; Playful Paintings, Playfully Painted; In the Floating World: Waō; In the World of Haikai Poetry: Gyōun; Autonomous: Fuji Nobuka and Taga Chōko; The Elegant and Vulgar at Play in an Album.

Fuji Nobuka's Accidental Meetings2 ISLAND ITCHŌ; Island Patrons; Poetic Communications from Exile; Island Paintings; Coda: The Sociability of a Summer Kimono; 3 HANABUSA ITCHŌ: HEAD OF THE STUDIO; The Kyōhō Era; The Sage at the Northern Window; Three Monumental Works; What Four Accomplishments?; The Visual Antics of Itchō; Best-Loved Motifs; Familiar Themes in the Hanabusa-School Repertoire; Painterly Poetics; Itchō's Inscription into Art History; The Itchō Legacy; PART TWO: AFTERLIVES; 4 TANGLED IN SCANDAL: MANUSCRIPT CULTURE; Print versus Manuscript Culture; The Vagaries of the Case.

A Record of Rumor: Sands of EdoAn Embellished Drama: Ryūkei's Tale; Made Transgressive: Edo Hearsay in Recent Times; 5 POETICALLY EVOKED: SONGS, POEMS, AND PICTURES IN PRINT; Itchō the Songwriter: Unattributed and Fleetingly Lauded; Paintings in Print: Publishing in the Name of the Master; 6 OBJECTIVITY AND ATMOSPHERE: BIOGRAPHIES TO JOURNALS; Kyōden's Embedded Account; The Broader Context: Biographies, 1790s-1850s; Itchō's Gradual Marginalization; 7 GOSSIP AFLOAT: THE PROMISCUITY OF THE ASAZUMA BOAT; Meanings Accrued; A Question of Attribution; Kyōden's Facts; Kyōden's Playfulness.

On the Kabuki Stage and in Ukiyo-eEPILOGUE; Endnotes; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; List of Characters; Index.

Miriam Wattles recounts the making of Hanabusa Itcho¿¿ (1652-1724), painter, haikai-poet, singer-songwriter, and artist subversive, in The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itcho¿¿, Artist-Rebel of Edo . Translating literary motifs visually to encapsulate the tensions of his time, many of Itcho¿¿¿́¿s original works became models emulated by ukiyo-e and other artists. A wide array of sources reveals a lifetime of multiple personas and positions that are the source of his multifarious artistic reincarnations. While, on the one hand, his legend as seditious exile appears in the fictional cross-media worlds of theater, novels, and prints, on the other hand, factual accounts of his complicated artistic life reveal an important figure within the first artists¿́¿ biographies of early modern Japan.

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