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Screen depicting scenes from spring and summer
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Description
The small size, red-lacquered frame and elegant designs of this screen suggest that they may have been made for a lady’s room. They once belonged to Hirooka Ihei, a well-known Kyoto yūzen silk merchant, who in 1897 pioneered the musen (lineless) yūzen technique. This recreated the soft wash effects of Japanese painting. The designs for these screens were apparently supplied by two celebrated Kyoto painters, Kishi Chikudō (1826-1897) and Mochizuki Gyokusen (1834-1913). (Exhibition number 39)
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Details
- Series
- Scenes from the Four Seasons
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto › Muromachi Suji (probable place of creation)Europe (original location)Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (Hirooka Ihei's residence) (former location)
- Date
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late 19th century
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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Kishi Chikudō (1826 - 1897) (designer)Mochizuki Gyokusen (1834 - 1913) (designer)Hiraoka (active late 19th century - early 20th century)possibly Murakami Kahei (died 1902)Nishimura Sōzaemon (established c. 1670)
- Associated people
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Hirooka Ihei (active late 19th century - early 20th century) (owner)possibly Mitsukoshi (established 1673) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- chirimen (silk crêpe), yūzen-dyed; paper backing; lacquered wood frame
- Dimensions
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open 91 x 321 x 1.8 cm (height x width x depth)
closed 91 x 53.5 x 10.8 cm (height x width x depth)
each panel 91 x 53.5 cm (height x width)
each image 63 x 45.6 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent from a private collection.
- Accession no.
- LI1982.2.1
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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. 39 p. 164, pp. 27, 31 & 100, illus. pp. 162-165
Past Exhibition
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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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