Maiko Playing Cards by Matsumoto Ichiyo
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Directory: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1920: Item # 1227939
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Gazing at the back of the traditional Maiko apprentice, pins and combs hold her coiffure perfect, our eyes travel down to the neck revealed as it joins the white painted shoulders, the luxurious kimono with its signature high and draping sash: She has the two of hearts! A very unusual painting reflecting the oddities of western influence at the opening of the 20th century by Matsumoto Ichiyo (1893-1952). It is truly a sketch, very possibly made from life while the young apprentice artist watched his teacher being entertained by the young apprentice geisha. It is performed with light color on silk, bordered in the Taisho manner with horizontal stripes of a softly charred blue, ivory and orange. The Ichimonji and integral Futai are streaked with true gold thread. It measures 40 x 195 cm (15-1/2 x 77 inches) and is in overall very nice condition, with yellowing of the silk to attest to age. There is some loss to the white Gofun clouds on the obi (sash), and it appears that red at the back of the collar may have been re-painted, possibly when it was mounted (which appears to be slightly later than it was painted).
Matsumoto Ichiyo was born in Kyoto, midway through the tumultuous Meiji period, and attended the city art primer before entering the Municipal School of Painting (Later Kyoto University of Art) where he jointly studied under the private tutelage of Yamamoto Shunkyo at his studio. While at school his first painting was accepted into the 9th Bunten (1915) National Exhibition. With a great emphasis on the revitalization of Yamoto-e tradition, he remained active on the National level, being consistently exhibited and prized, and later serving as professor at his Alma Matter. After the Second World War he served as a juror for the Nitten, and continued research and resurrection of Yamato-e until his death in 1952.
Gazing at the back of the traditional Maiko apprentice, pins and combs hold her coiffure perfect, our eyes travel down to the neck revealed as it joins the white painted shoulders, the luxurious kimono with its signature high and draping sash: She has the two of hearts! A very unusual painting reflecting the oddities of western influence at the opening of the 20th century by Matsumoto Ichiyo (1893-1952). It is truly a sketch, very possibly made from life while the young apprentice artist watched his teacher being entertained by the young apprentice geisha. It is performed with light color on silk, bordered in the Taisho manner with horizontal stripes of a softly charred blue, ivory and orange. The Ichimonji and integral Futai are streaked with true gold thread. It measures 40 x 195 cm (15-1/2 x 77 inches) and is in overall very nice condition, with yellowing of the silk to attest to age. There is some loss to the white Gofun clouds on the obi (sash), and it appears that red at the back of the collar may have been re-painted, possibly when it was mounted (which appears to be slightly later than it was painted).
Matsumoto Ichiyo was born in Kyoto, midway through the tumultuous Meiji period, and attended the city art primer before entering the Municipal School of Painting (Later Kyoto University of Art) where he jointly studied under the private tutelage of Yamamoto Shunkyo at his studio. While at school his first painting was accepted into the 9th Bunten (1915) National Exhibition. With a great emphasis on the revitalization of Yamoto-e tradition, he remained active on the National level, being consistently exhibited and prized, and later serving as professor at his Alma Matter. After the Second World War he served as a juror for the Nitten, and continued research and resurrection of Yamato-e until his death in 1952.