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| Yoshu Chikanobu, A Mirror of the Ages, Kenmu Beauty and Take-uma |
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| Item No | #1080027050 |
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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 Kenmu period (early 14C). The beauty is wearing a hat called ichime-gasa with a veil called mushi-tare-ginu. The technique called nunome-zuri which employs woven fabric glued to a woodblock to emboss the design of the weave onto the paper is used to depict the tranparent veil.
In the upper part, 3 children playing on the take-uma are depicted. Although corrent takeuma looks the same as western stilts which composed of two bamboo sticks with foot boards, old style takeuma was a simple bamboo stick with leaves like these depicted in the print and played by children of the Samurai families.
Good Impression and Colors
Slight tear on the back
This was published in 1897
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