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Young woman reading a book illuminated by orange light
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Description
This panel by the Kyoto silk manufacturer Nishimura Sōzaemon makes effective use of minimal stitch work and a deliberately restricted colour palette. The source of the design is unknown, but it may have been inspired by the work of the oil painter Yamamoto Hōsui, who made a series of paintings in the early 1890s that explored the effects of light and shadow upon a woman within a Japanese interior at night-time. (Exhibition number 36)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto › Muromachi Suji (place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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c. 1910
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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Nishimura Sōzaemon (established c. 1670)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed brown, and embroidered with coloured silk; wooden frame
- Dimensions
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frame 48.8 x 41.4 x 3 cm (height x width x depth)
textile 31.4 x 24 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.17
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 9 November 2012-27 January 2013, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Clare Pollard, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 36 p. 154, illus. p. 155
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)
Location
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- returned to owner
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