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Item #107004910

Okada Kakyo's Byobu with 2 Panels "Nenohi-asobi", an excellent artwork

Item No

#107004910

Item

Byoubu (2 Panels)

Price

$10000.00

Weight

14.5kg

size

width

174.5cm 68 3/4"

depth

2cm 0 3/4"

height

152cm 59 3/4"

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Okada Kakyou (1894-1981) was born in Tokyo in 1894 and his real name was Genjirou. He was traught by Reika Yoshikawa. He is known as the last Yamatoe artist.

Nowadays, Bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women in Japanese fine arts) which is created with Japanese traditional painting styles and drawn with elegant brush lines like THIS WORK is rarely found in Japan.

The title of this artwork is "Nenohi-asobi".
It is also called "komatsuhiki" ("pulling up small pines"). "Nenohi-asobi"literally means "Day of the Mouse Celebration". Ne or mouse is the first symbol in the "Kanshi" and "eto" (ten stems and twelve branches in Chinese zodiac). The Chinese zodiacal symbols were used to indicate the cardinal directions and as a way of counting years, months, days and hours as well as a geomantic system for telling fortunes at that time.

Nenohi-asobi was one of the traditional events of the New Year's season held at at shrines in the Heian period (794-1185) which celebrated the first Day of the Mouse (hatsune) by going out into surrounding fields and gathering young greens as well as small pine seedling by the root: it is retained in the tradtional New Year decorations which include pine fronds. People of that time wished their longevity at this celebration. The princesses at the shrine must have enjoyed this celebration as well.

As a pictorial theme, it is found both as an independent subject and as part of Japanese traditional events' pictures. In Japan the practice can be traced back to the 8c (late Nara period). The theme appears in yamato-e, often as a scene of a series in scrolls or screens illustrating events associated with the New Year.

The large Byoubu (folding screen) style shown here is one of Kakyoku's masterpieces.
This artwork was created in 1942.

The title, the artist's signature and seal are applied in the middle right of the right screen.

This Byobu comes with the original wooden box (sized W157.5~H90~D10)

Very good impression, colors and condition
Very slight stains

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