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| Yoshu Chikanobu, Chiyoda Palace: The Inner Rooms, New Year's Rice Cake |
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| Item No | #1080027058 |
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| Item | Ukiyo-e(Beauty) |
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| Artist | Yoshu Chikanobu |
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| Price | $200.00 |
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| Weight | 0.03kg |
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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 glamorous bijin-ga (paintings of beauties), his bijin-ga depict soft and graceful girlish beauty.
This series titled "Chiyoda Palace: The Inner Rooms" is one of his representative "kanjyo-e" (paintings of court ladies) genres. This artwork depicts court ladies of the palace viewing the parade led by the festival float carrying kagami-mochi, round shaped rice cake for new year's celabration. Double layerd big amd small rice cakes are offered to the god of Shintoism on new yaer days. A few men dancing cheerfully and court ladies looking at the men and laghing are depicted on the right print. This triptych evokes viewers cheerful and festive feeling of the new year's holidays.
The title "Chiyoda-no-ouoku Kagami Mochi Sen" is written in the caroutche in the upper right of the right print.
Signature of Yoshu Chikanobu is placed in the lower left of the left print.
Date of printing (Dec 2,1953), date of publication (Dec 20, 1953) and publisher's name "Fukuda Hatsujiro" are written in the cartouche placed in the left below of the left print
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