DOI Heft:
No. 240 (March 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0193
Studio-Talk
recently recovered from their despondency and
decided to go on with the work in order that
they may dedicate the works of art to the spirit of
the late Emperor. The proposed art collection,
when completed, will first be presented to the
reigning Emperor for inspection, and after its
dedication to the spirit of the Emperor Meiji with
a proper ceremony, it will be installed in a room in
the memorial art gallery of the Imperial Household
Museum in TJyeno Park.
The Court artists now comprise twenty-two
members : six painters in the Japanese and one in
the European style, three sculptors, two artists in
metal-carving, one in casting, one in lacquer, and
another in cloisonne, one architect, one designer,
one photographer, two swordsmiths, and two
potters. Every one of them is to contribute some-
thing towards the proposed collection. Some of
the works are already finished, among them an oil
painting, Chrysanthemums, by Kuroda Kiyoteru ; a
shakudo flower vase by Unno Shomin; a carving
by Kagawa Katsuhiro; a boar carved by Ishikawa
cloisonne vase by namikawa yasuyuki Mitsuaki (Komei) in cherry-wood several centuries
old; a Japanese landscape by Noguchi Shohin, a
the West in our love of that school, although it may lady artist who works in the Nanga style ; a
be we have a different taste and opinion regarding painting, Wild Ducks, by Araki Kampo; and a
it. We still stick to our hereditary superstition cloisonne incense burner by Namikawa Yasuyuki,
that no picture is good if it cannot be hung in the showing most delicate workmanship in gold and
tokonoma, where we burn incense , and
place the flowers arranged to invoke the
greyness of the air. And I wonder why
we cannot put there a colour-print of
Utamaro's lady ? Yone Noguchi.
At the time when the national catas-
trophe fell upon Japan by the sudden
death of the Emperor, the Court artists
to his Imperial Majesty were engaged,
each in his own line of art, in the pro-
duction of a collection of representative
works of art of the Meiji era, to be
presented to their Imperial patron as a
token of gratitude for the gracious con-
sideration they had received from him
and for the encouragement he had so
consistently given to art. The presenta-
tion of the art collection was to have
taken place on November 3, 1912, the
sixty-first anniversary of the Emperor's
birthday—and the much-lamented death
occurred about three months earlier.
Great, therefore, was the disappointment
of the artists. However, they have "chrysanthemums" (oil painting), by kuroda kiyoteru
170
recently recovered from their despondency and
decided to go on with the work in order that
they may dedicate the works of art to the spirit of
the late Emperor. The proposed art collection,
when completed, will first be presented to the
reigning Emperor for inspection, and after its
dedication to the spirit of the Emperor Meiji with
a proper ceremony, it will be installed in a room in
the memorial art gallery of the Imperial Household
Museum in TJyeno Park.
The Court artists now comprise twenty-two
members : six painters in the Japanese and one in
the European style, three sculptors, two artists in
metal-carving, one in casting, one in lacquer, and
another in cloisonne, one architect, one designer,
one photographer, two swordsmiths, and two
potters. Every one of them is to contribute some-
thing towards the proposed collection. Some of
the works are already finished, among them an oil
painting, Chrysanthemums, by Kuroda Kiyoteru ; a
shakudo flower vase by Unno Shomin; a carving
by Kagawa Katsuhiro; a boar carved by Ishikawa
cloisonne vase by namikawa yasuyuki Mitsuaki (Komei) in cherry-wood several centuries
old; a Japanese landscape by Noguchi Shohin, a
the West in our love of that school, although it may lady artist who works in the Nanga style ; a
be we have a different taste and opinion regarding painting, Wild Ducks, by Araki Kampo; and a
it. We still stick to our hereditary superstition cloisonne incense burner by Namikawa Yasuyuki,
that no picture is good if it cannot be hung in the showing most delicate workmanship in gold and
tokonoma, where we burn incense , and
place the flowers arranged to invoke the
greyness of the air. And I wonder why
we cannot put there a colour-print of
Utamaro's lady ? Yone Noguchi.
At the time when the national catas-
trophe fell upon Japan by the sudden
death of the Emperor, the Court artists
to his Imperial Majesty were engaged,
each in his own line of art, in the pro-
duction of a collection of representative
works of art of the Meiji era, to be
presented to their Imperial patron as a
token of gratitude for the gracious con-
sideration they had received from him
and for the encouragement he had so
consistently given to art. The presenta-
tion of the art collection was to have
taken place on November 3, 1912, the
sixty-first anniversary of the Emperor's
birthday—and the much-lamented death
occurred about three months earlier.
Great, therefore, was the disappointment
of the artists. However, they have "chrysanthemums" (oil painting), by kuroda kiyoteru
170