koubou　工房
CATEGORY:　architecture / general terms
　
A studio or place of work for artists and craftsmen. Also refers to artists or craftsmen who group together to produce work based on a similiar purpose or approach. Essentially the same meaning as 'atelier'. In ancient Japan, there were koubou for imperial court painters (kyuutei eshi 宮廷絵師), painters in the employ of the shogun 将軍 (*goyoueshi 御用絵師), official painting bureau of temples and shrines (jiin-no-edokoro 寺院の絵所), and studios for making Buddhist statues (*bussho 仏所). By the late Muromachi period, guild (za 座) organizations had developed among fanmakers (ougiya 扇屋) in Kyoto and Buddhist painters (*ebusshi 絵仏師) in Nara, but they were dissolved during the Momoyama and early Edo periods and replaced by private studios or *eya 絵屋. Examples of productions of eya in the early Edo period are works produced by Soutatsu's 宗達 studio (Soutatsu koubou which used the Tawaraya 俵屋 seal or the *Inen 伊年 seal, and paintings by the Iwasa Matabee 岩佐又兵衛 koubou. In the 18c many works were produced by Kaigetsudou Ando 懐月堂安度 and his disciples of the Kaigetsudou koubou.
　
　

　
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