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Category Archive 'Japanese Art'
01 Jan 2022
Choki: Sunrise at New YearEishosai Choki, Japanese Art, New Years Day, Ukiyoe![]()
A bijin (beautiful woman), presumably a courtesan, has risen early to greet the rising sun of the New Year at the waterfront at Fukagawa in Edo. The woman is adjusting the top of her kimono to protect against the chill of the early morning. In the lower-left is a blossoming fukujuso plant, emblematic of the New Year. 26 May 2021
Folding Screen Sekigahara AnimatedAnimation, History, Japanese Art, Sekigahara![]()
HT: Karen L. Myers. 01 Jan 2021
Choki: Sunrise at New YearEishosai Choki, Japanese Art, New Years Day, Ukiyoe![]()
A bijin (beautiful woman), presumably a courtesan, has risen early to greet the rising sun of the New Year at the waterfront at Fukagawa in Edo. The woman is adjusting the top of her kimono to protect against the chill of the early morning. In the lower-left is a blossoming fukujuso plant, emblematic of the New Year. 12 Dec 2020
Kato Gizan, “Jigan”Auction Sales, Christie's, Japanese Art, Kato Gizan, Sculpture![]() —————— ——————– Christie’s Sale 19017 Japanese and Korean Art KATO GIZAN (B. 1968) Estimate Via: Artemis Dreaming. 01 Jan 2020
Choki: Sunrise at New YearJapanese Art, New Years Day, Ukiyoe![]()
A bijin (beautiful woman), presumably a courtesan, has risen early to greet the rising sun of the New Year at the waterfront at Fukagawa in Edo. The woman is adjusting the top of her kimono to protect against the chill of the early morning. In the lower-left is a blossoming fukujuso plant, emblematic of the New Year. 05 Apr 2018
Lampshade, Japan, circa 1905.Japanese Art![]()
A plique à jour enamel lampshade with a rounded hexagonal bell-shaped body and petalled rim worked in white enamel with stylized flowers and foliate scrolls on a pale blue-grey ground. Applied with silver rims. Text and image via Khalili Collection. It is said that it was Ando Jubei who introduced the technique of plique à jour (shotai jippo) to Japan; supposedly he first saw such work, made by Fernand Thesmar (see FR 284), at the Paris Exposition of 1900. But this cannot be true since the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore has a piece (inv. no. 44.156) in the technique labeled Namikawa Sosuke, and there is one in the 1896 Sosuke book (see E 7) said to have been exhibited at Chicago in 1893. This technique, where the supporting metal is removed after firing to leave the glass and the wire alone, is notoriously difficult. It was an astonishing feat to acquire the skill so quickly and from such a slender source. Large pieces are particularly difficult to make as it is almost impossible to avoid some small cracks during the cooling process. O. Impey, M. Fairley (eds.), Meiji No Takara: Treasures Of Imperial Japan: Enamel, London 1994, cat. 76. J. Earle, Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji period from the Khalili Collection, London 2002, cat. 234, p. 327. ![]() Feeds
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