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Skeleton kneeling playing a shamisen, or plucked instrument
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Description
The design for this panel and its pair [LI1956.16.b] was probably provided by the Kyoto painter Takeuchi Seihō, who worked as a designer for the silk manufacturer Iida Shinshichi (Takashimaya). In 1897 Seihō exhibited a hanging scroll of a dancing skeleton that was extremely similar to one of these panels [LI1956.b]. Some thread has been lost here, revealing the gofun shell powder design traced onto the silk ground beneath. (Exhibition number 38)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (probable place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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late 19th century
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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probably Iida Shinshichi (established 1831)probably Takeuchi Seihō (1864 - 1942) (designer)
- Associated people
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Shibata Genshichi (active late 19th century) (commissioner)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed brown, traced with gofun (powdered shell pigment), and embroidered with coloured silk; wooden frame
- Dimensions
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frame 85 x 45.8 x 5.9 cm (height x width x depth)
textile 68 x 28.3 cm sight size (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
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dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.16.1
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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. 38 pp. 157-158, illus. pp. 157 & 159
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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