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'''Yi Hai''' ({{zh|c=伊海}}; 1698 – {{circa|1747}}), [[courtesy name]] Fujiu (桴鳩) and known as '''I Fukyū''' in [[Japanese language|Japanese]], was a [[Chinese art|Chinese]] [[Painting|painter]] and [[merchant]] who frequented the Japanese trading port of [[Nagasaki, Nagasaki|Nagasaki]]. He is said to have been a captain of a [[junk (ship)|junk]] trading ship that plied between [[Ningbo]] and Nagasaki from 1726 to 1746.
Yi Hai is identified in the ''Encyclopedia of Chinese Artists'' as a native of [[Wuxing District|Wuxing, Zhejiang]]. Trade in [[Japan]] at this time was restricted to the port of Nagasaki and Chinese merchants carried on their business in the Chinese Factory or Tojinyashiki (唐人屋敷). Van Gulick in his ''Chinese Pictorial Art'' suggested that although Yi Hai produced some "striking ink-landscapes" he also engaged in "some mild forms of [[piracy]]." Yi Hai's renown in Japan was to such an extent he was known as one of the "Four Great Masters From Abroad." In 1803, his works were printed with those of the master [[Ike no Taiga|Ike-no-Taiga]] in ''Album of Paintings by Yi Fujiu and Ike Taiga''.
Although his works could be seen just as cold imitations of Chinese literati works, Yi Fujiu's style has no precedent in Japan, because it was different from the familiar ink traditions of [[Muromachi period|Muromachi]] collections. His landscapes eventually reflect a mixed style, which made reference to several Chinese literati artists.<ref>Marco, Meccarelli. 2015.  [https://www.academia.edu/20410225/Chinese_Painters_in_Nagasaki_Style_and_Artistic_Contaminatio_during_the_Tokugawa_Period_1603-1868_ "Chinese Painters in Nagasaki: Style and Artistic Contaminatio during the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868)"] Ming Qing Studies 2015, Pages 175-236.</ref>
== References ==
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* Yu Lianhua, ''Encyclopedia of Chinese Artists'', Shanghai, 1980, p.&nbsp;181.
* R.H. van Gulick, ''Chinese Pictorial Art'', Rome, 1958, p.&nbsp;407.
* ''The Dictionary of Art'', vol. 17, Macmillan, 1996, p.&nbsp;189.
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