Great Ukiyo-e Exhibition (Edo-Tokyo Museum)

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Usually, it's not such a thing much, but rare, I tried to open the first day of the visit. Large Ukiyo-e Exhibition both countries, in the Edo-Tokyo Museum.

Indeed, in a New Year a holiday, people looked like many of the New Year's visit to a Shinto shrine way home was visiting. I wonder tourists, the figure of foreigners in many cases.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the International Ukiyo-e Society, the 20 anniversary of the Edo-Tokyo Museum, exhibition a big way.

Beginning with Hishikawa Moronobu, Torii Xinzhou, Okumura Masanobu, Suzuki Harunobu, Katsukawa Shunsho, Kitagawa Utamaro, Toshusaisharaku, Utagawa Toyokuni, KeiHitoshi Eisen, Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Kiyochika Kobayashi, Ito deep, and Kawase Hasui, works of major ukiyo-e is exhibited in all of us.

Like the exhibition textbook of Ukiyo-e, such as if it had been reproduced in the venue as it is.

To the location that contains the entrance, is said to Hikone Byobu commonly, customs figure screen are on display. National treasure is the only exhibition in Tokyo venue. Splendor that is not worthy of the name of national treasure.

Drawn in the early Edo period, customs of that time is depicted. The folding screen on the left, there is a landscape painting of a large black-and-white first. In the previous, biwa player of the blind, have Ginji the Heike Monogatari. Also, in front of the ink painting, young men and women to Kyojiru sugoroku.

The folding screen on the right, wearing a kimono witty, in the manner of shore stick a sword, while wriggle, young man, have wrecked the young woman. The left hand of the young man, young woman is allowed to walk the puppy.

First of all, I admire the beauty of the clothes. And, everyone is laughing people. His expression is really good. Long Warring States period is over, the arrival of the era of peace, I wonder if appeared to look like that.

Book theater and Kita-ro of Hishikawa Moronobu. State of kabuki hut and Yoshihara is depicted. That curve of return of beauty Moronobu, Moronobu curve, can be found here and there in the screen.

Men and drawn in a straight line, using the line of kimono, woman drawn in a curve. The contrast is impressive indeed. Ukiyo-e to us later, the sense of this picture of Hishikawa Moronobu is going to be inherited in a variety of ways.

However, the feeling of the picture Hishikawa Moronobu is called "ukiyo-e" is said generally not. Is said to be the color woodblock print, middle of the 18th century, from the works of Suzuki Harunobu per Meiwa year, come to "Ukiyo-e", finally.

Share an umbrella in the snow of the Suzuki Harunobu. Such as boys and girls, men and women drawn young, appearance of going down the road of in the snow. The beautiful, beautiful anyway. As a work depicting the lovers, it would be one of the most beautiful things in this world.

This work, collections of the British Museum. In this exhibition, in addition to this, work Guimet Museum in France, Berlin State Museum of Asian Art of Germany, such as the Art Institute of Chicago in the United States, from ukiyo-e collection around the world are on display.

And early 19th century from the late 18th century, ukiyo-e greet the golden age. Torii Xinzhou, Kitagawa Utamaro, Toshusaisharaku, and Utagawa Toyokuni, works of superstar who Ukiyo-e line.

In terms modern, beautiful women of Edo Kitagawa Utamaro drew, is not visible to the very beautiful woman. If you do not observe well well, in the first place, the woman who drew the eye to thin Pole, do not know the difference.

Modern Japanese, I wonder has been forgotten, the sense of beauty of the time people felt. Or, even at that time, I wonder did feel that way.

And, through Edo period from the early 19th century, ukiyo-e marks the maturity.

Specter view of the Hyaku Monogatari Katsushika Hokusai, Wind Sunny (Red Fuji), Great Wave Off Kanagawa. Prior to the work of Hokusai, stop, figure becomes unacceptable. In addition, since the on display at the position to be on the corner, just spur to the congestion.

Original painting of the Boys, 'Festival of Hokusai. Work that seems to Hokusai were combined in a wacky idea, a blue flag and helmet. When I wrote this, Hokusai says it was a 85-year-old, but it is carefully drawn up to one one of the braid armor. I is the signature, and the old man E-kyo swastika brush,. Dreadful, Hokusai.

Next to the picture, view cherry blossoms daughter of Hokusai, Katsushika Oohi are on display. Thus work of women artist is, what is exhibited is rare. Technology as a painter is something definite.

When it comes to the age of the Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido Hiroshige, technology as ukiyo-e prints and underwent a development in order to surprised. If you look at the field of washing Kiso Road series of Hiroshige, one one of the trees, shades of subtle sunset sky has been beautifully expressed.

The Ukiyo-e, people of the Edo era depicted there people, not just the landscape, the development of technology in the Edo period, I have appeared.

When you greet the Meiji era, Ukiyo-e, exert the role of the original that, draw the appearance of that era. Image of Western-style buildings, such as the concert in Rokumeikan, painter who until then did not take painted appearance.

Beautiful image of Ito deep is not inferior to the beautiful image of Utamaro never , and in the delicacy of its representation , landscapes Kawase Hasui might have won the Hiroshige .

However, it is pushed technology of Western prints , Ukiyo-e , went off the figure gradually .

Finally , a word about Edo-Tokyo Museum was the venue .

Sort of exhibition to showcase many works include, but are not uncommon , but too many this time . Of the two -month holding period , there is some sort of exhibition Sort almost every week .

Built in bubble period , venue of the special exhibition is small , but if you use the usual places exhibition , this museum , should be able to exhibit the work of many more, but it seems not perform such a device .

Moreover , generally , if there is a display re case of performing repeat discount often , it is not done at this time. It's unkind clearly .

Not without feeling than that of the pompous name of large Ukiyo-e exhibition , called lousy exhibition , .