DOI Heft:
No. 374 (May 1924)
DOI Artikel:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0316
TOKYO
TOKYO.—The recent royal wedding
of the Prince Regent and Princess
Nagako gave a great stimulus to the art
world of Nippon. The occasion has in-
spired a new life into our art which had
been scorched by the recent great fire and
badly crushed in the terrible earthquake.
It was, as it were, the benevolent dew to a
wiltering plant, quickening its sinking
vitality and nursing it to shoot forth young
leaves. To commemorate the happy occa-
sion talents in various branches of art were
called upon to show their skill befitting
such an event. Different prefectures,
cities, institutions, as well as individuals
throughout the empire celebrated the royal
wedding with presents in appropriate
forms of art work, in spite of an imperial
wish to have the people refrain from send-
ing in their gifts, as any form of extrava-
gance should be suppressed under the
existing condition of things in Nippon.
One of the most spectacular of these
presents was that of Tokyo prefecture.
It consisted of three albums of paintings
by seventy-three contemporary artists from
all over the country, with a splendid
lacquer cabinet to keep them in. They
“THE MOON FROM MIKASA-
YAMA.” BY TSUTAYA-RYUKO
(In the Commemorative Album
from The Tokyo Prefecture)
contained works by such Tokyo painters as
Yokoyama - Taikwan, Kobori - Tomone,
Shimomura - Kwanzan, Kawai - Gyokudo,
Kaburaki-Kiyokata, Hirafuku-Hyakusui,
Matsuoka-Eikyu, Kikkawa-Reika, Ikegami-
Shuho, Araki - Jippo, Yasuda - Yukihiko,
Tsutaya-Ryuko, Tanaka-Raisho, and some
thirty others, and by such Kyoto artists as
Tomioka-Tessai (the oldest painter in the
list, aged 89), Takeuchi-Seiho, Imao-
Keinen, Hashimoto-Kwansetsu, Uyemura-
Shoyen, the best known among the con-
temporary lady artists, Yamamoto-
Shunkyo, Kawamura-Manshyu, Tsuchida-
Bakusen, Konoshima-Okoku, Nakamura-
Daizaburo and some twenty others. 0
Though the paintings on silk are no more
than 11 by 15 inches, they afford a general
survey of works by our contemporary
painters and an interesting comparison of
different styles of paintings now followed.
Much credit is due to Mr. Masaki, the
president of the Tokyo Academy of Fine
Arts, who was responsible for the getting
up of the albums and the cabinet, and in
the production of other presents with
which his school was entrusted from
various sources. Jiro Hirada.
297
TOKYO.—The recent royal wedding
of the Prince Regent and Princess
Nagako gave a great stimulus to the art
world of Nippon. The occasion has in-
spired a new life into our art which had
been scorched by the recent great fire and
badly crushed in the terrible earthquake.
It was, as it were, the benevolent dew to a
wiltering plant, quickening its sinking
vitality and nursing it to shoot forth young
leaves. To commemorate the happy occa-
sion talents in various branches of art were
called upon to show their skill befitting
such an event. Different prefectures,
cities, institutions, as well as individuals
throughout the empire celebrated the royal
wedding with presents in appropriate
forms of art work, in spite of an imperial
wish to have the people refrain from send-
ing in their gifts, as any form of extrava-
gance should be suppressed under the
existing condition of things in Nippon.
One of the most spectacular of these
presents was that of Tokyo prefecture.
It consisted of three albums of paintings
by seventy-three contemporary artists from
all over the country, with a splendid
lacquer cabinet to keep them in. They
“THE MOON FROM MIKASA-
YAMA.” BY TSUTAYA-RYUKO
(In the Commemorative Album
from The Tokyo Prefecture)
contained works by such Tokyo painters as
Yokoyama - Taikwan, Kobori - Tomone,
Shimomura - Kwanzan, Kawai - Gyokudo,
Kaburaki-Kiyokata, Hirafuku-Hyakusui,
Matsuoka-Eikyu, Kikkawa-Reika, Ikegami-
Shuho, Araki - Jippo, Yasuda - Yukihiko,
Tsutaya-Ryuko, Tanaka-Raisho, and some
thirty others, and by such Kyoto artists as
Tomioka-Tessai (the oldest painter in the
list, aged 89), Takeuchi-Seiho, Imao-
Keinen, Hashimoto-Kwansetsu, Uyemura-
Shoyen, the best known among the con-
temporary lady artists, Yamamoto-
Shunkyo, Kawamura-Manshyu, Tsuchida-
Bakusen, Konoshima-Okoku, Nakamura-
Daizaburo and some twenty others. 0
Though the paintings on silk are no more
than 11 by 15 inches, they afford a general
survey of works by our contemporary
painters and an interesting comparison of
different styles of paintings now followed.
Much credit is due to Mr. Masaki, the
president of the Tokyo Academy of Fine
Arts, who was responsible for the getting
up of the albums and the cabinet, and in
the production of other presents with
which his school was entrusted from
various sources. Jiro Hirada.
297