14 Sep 2021
Japanese Art, Unkei, Zen
Category Archive 'Japanese Art'
26 May 2021
Folding Screen Sekigahara Animated
Animation, History, Japanese Art, Sekigahara
Have you ever looked at a landscape painting and imagined it coming to life? Japanese videographer Yusuke Shigeta decided to transform an ancient artwork into an animation that now looks like something from a video game. His work is titled Sekigahara-Sansui-zu-Byobu (Folding Screen of Painted Sekigahara Landscapes) and is based on a 17th-century multi-panel screen that depicts the Battle of Sekigahara.
One of the most important wars in Japanese history, the Battle of Sekigahara took place during the Sengoku period on October 21, 1600, in what is now Gifu prefecture. All told, 160,000 men faced each other; the samurai warriors of Tokugawa Ieyasu against a coalition of Toyotomi loyalist clans. The Tokugawa troops won, leading to the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan for another two and a half centuries until 1868.
HT: Karen L. Myers.
01 Jan 2021
Choki: Sunrise at New Year
Eishosai Choki, Japanese Art, New Years Day, Ukiyoe
Eishosai Choki (fl. 1780s-1800s), Sunrise at New Year
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
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Christie’s
Sale 19017
Japanese and Korean Art
New York
22 September 2020
KATO GIZAN (B. 1968)
Jigen (Manifestation)
Signed Gizan and cursive monogram
Carved wood sculpture
43 3/8 in. (110.2 cm.) high without stand
With original metal stand
Estimate
USD 30,000 – USD 40,000
Price realised
USD 312,500
Via: Artemis Dreaming.
01 Jan 2020
Choki: Sunrise at New Year
Japanese Art, New Years Day, Ukiyoe
Eishosai Choki (fl. 1780s-1800s), Sunrise at New Year
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.
25 Feb 2019
Flying Cranes and Poetry
Calligraphy, Hon'ami KÅetsu, Japanese Art, Tawaraya SÅtatsu
Flying Cranes and Poetry.
Attributed to Tawaraya SÅtatsu (act. 1600-1640),
Calligrapher Hon’ami KÅetsu (Japanese, 1558 – 1637)
Edo Period. Japanese Poem sheet (shikishi) mounted as a hanging scroll, ink and gold on paper. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
05 Apr 2018
Lampshade, Japan, circa 1905.
Japanese Art
Lampshade. Japan, circa 1905. Plique à jour enamel, silver. height 20.5 cm.
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.
01 Jan 2018
Choki: Sunrise at New Year
Japanese Art, New Years Day, Ukiyoe
Eishosai Choki (fl. 1780s-1800s), Sunrise at New Year
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.
08 May 2017
Japanese Elephant
Elephant, Japanese Art, Sculpture
— Elephant.
Place of origin: Japan
Period: Kamakura period, 1185-1333
Date: ca. 1250
Medium: Wood, metal, crystal, and pigments.
Via Belacqui.
