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| Yoshu Chikanobu, A Mirror of the Ages, Tenna Beauty and Various Head Gears |
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| Item No | #1080027024 |
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| Item | Ukiyo-e(Beauty) |
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| Artist | Yoshu Chikanobu |
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| Price | $150.00 |
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| Weight | 0.01kg |
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| | 23cm 9" | | | 35.5cm 14" |
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Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) was a popular artist in the Meiji period, the era from 1868 to 1912 when Japan underwent rapid westernization and the emperor was reinstated as ruler. Like many other print designers of these years, Chikanobu worked with subjects of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, such as actors, courtesans, famous sites, and beautiful women, while at first reflecting western conventions in art and picturing current events, such as the Saigo Rebellion and various battles of the Sino-Japanese War. In fact, his prints are frequent illustrations in history books about the Meiji era.
However, he later changed his approach and embraced more traditional themes stemming from his recollections of life in old Edo, before the modern period ushered in by the Meiji emperor.
He became particularly well-known for his exquisite expositions of women's fashion, including both traditional and Western clothing, distinctively illuminating the changes and development in coiffures and make-up through the centuries. Comparing to other vigorous glamourous bijin-ga (paintings of beauties), his bijin-ga depict soft and graceful girlish beauty.
His representative artworks are "Jidai Kagami" series (A Mirror of the Ages) and "Shin Bijin" series (A Truly Beautiful Women).
This print is one of the 50 prints of his "Jidai Kagami" series. Each print depicts a beauty from a certain period in the lower part and customs at that time in the upper part. Each print tells viewers about the latest fashion and historical backgroud at that time.
This is the print which depicts a beauty from the Tenna period (1681-1684) of the Edo Era. The beauty is wearing a hood which was in fashion at that time.
In the upper part, people wearing various headgears are depicted. Samurai and monks wore headgear to hide their faces or some people wrore them to protect from the sun or dust. Some people wore different head gears for different reasons and occasions.
Copying Kabuki actors, headgears became in fasion among commoners.
For young ladies, it was considered to be cool to wear hoods tieing on the side of the face or hold one in the mouth.
Good Impression and Colors
Published in 1897
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