DOI Heft:
No. 387 (September 1924)
DOI Artikel:[Notes: one hundred and ninety-three illustrations]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0196
NEW YORK—TOKYO
NEW YORK—We reproduce a triptych
entitled, The Great Wonder, by
Miss Violet Oakley, which, after occupy-
ing the place of honour at the annual
exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, and being shown at an
exhibition of Miss Oakley's work in New
York, was placed in the Alumnae House
at Vassar College. It is a seven-fold
composition, representing passages from
the Apocalypse. 0000
TOKYO.—One of the indispensable
articles of use and decoration in the
homes of Nippon is a vase or a basket for
flowers. The art of arranging cut flowers
in various forms of receptacles has long
been in practice through the feudal Nippon
to the present day, and great masters
from time to time started " schools," or
styles, more than a dozen of which are
still kept up to-day with devoted followers
for each. Not only that, but new styles
are being introduced to meet the require-
ment of the age. So invaluable is the art
of flower arranging in our homes, that
the girls' schools throughout the country
teach it, and thousands of professionals
are kept busy in taking pupils and in
giving lessons in individual homes. With
so many different styles being followed,
and with new ones still being evolved, and
with such deep interest being taken in
the art of flower arranging, it is but natural
that there should be a wide variety of
vessels in which to arrange flowers. The
sixty-fifth semi-annual art exhibition of
the Nihon Bijutsu Kyokai (The Fine Art
Association of Nippon), recently held
at its exhibition halls in Uyeno Park,
which was devoted to sculpture and works
of applied arts, contained a wide variety
of hana-ike, or kahei (flower vases), hana-
kago (basket for flowers) and irchirin-zashi,
literally meaning " one-blossom-thrust,"
a vase with a small mouth to contain one
or two sprays. 0000
There was quite a variation in porcelain
vases for flowers. Excellent was the work
by Seifu-Yohei, of Kyoto, especially the
one in pale blue and another in dark
green. Sakaya-Hazan, of Tokyo, showed
some wares of surpassing beauty, especi-
ally the one in very pale elusive shade and
covered with a floral scroll. Interesting
176
was a bucket-shaped porcelain vase, deco-
rated with fan designs, by Takiguchi-
Jozen, of Ashikaga-Prefecture. a 0
As usual, the exhibition contained a
number of interesting bamboo baskets for
flower arranging. Iizuka-Rokansai showed
several, among which the tall one with a
handle in pale bamboo was full of dignity.
Iizuka - Hosai's taro-shaped basket in
brownish bamboo had an excellent finish.
A grotesque basket made of bamboo roots
and vines by Narabe-Chikusai, of Ibaragi
Prefecture, was interesting. 0 0
With certain exceptions, vases shown
at the exhibition were more suitable for
a European room than for the toko-
noma of a chaseki (the room for cha-no-yu),
where the spirit of old Nippon still lives
undisturbed. Jiro Hirada.
PORCELAIN FLOWER VASE
BY TAKIGUCHI - JOZEN
NEW YORK—We reproduce a triptych
entitled, The Great Wonder, by
Miss Violet Oakley, which, after occupy-
ing the place of honour at the annual
exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, and being shown at an
exhibition of Miss Oakley's work in New
York, was placed in the Alumnae House
at Vassar College. It is a seven-fold
composition, representing passages from
the Apocalypse. 0000
TOKYO.—One of the indispensable
articles of use and decoration in the
homes of Nippon is a vase or a basket for
flowers. The art of arranging cut flowers
in various forms of receptacles has long
been in practice through the feudal Nippon
to the present day, and great masters
from time to time started " schools," or
styles, more than a dozen of which are
still kept up to-day with devoted followers
for each. Not only that, but new styles
are being introduced to meet the require-
ment of the age. So invaluable is the art
of flower arranging in our homes, that
the girls' schools throughout the country
teach it, and thousands of professionals
are kept busy in taking pupils and in
giving lessons in individual homes. With
so many different styles being followed,
and with new ones still being evolved, and
with such deep interest being taken in
the art of flower arranging, it is but natural
that there should be a wide variety of
vessels in which to arrange flowers. The
sixty-fifth semi-annual art exhibition of
the Nihon Bijutsu Kyokai (The Fine Art
Association of Nippon), recently held
at its exhibition halls in Uyeno Park,
which was devoted to sculpture and works
of applied arts, contained a wide variety
of hana-ike, or kahei (flower vases), hana-
kago (basket for flowers) and irchirin-zashi,
literally meaning " one-blossom-thrust,"
a vase with a small mouth to contain one
or two sprays. 0000
There was quite a variation in porcelain
vases for flowers. Excellent was the work
by Seifu-Yohei, of Kyoto, especially the
one in pale blue and another in dark
green. Sakaya-Hazan, of Tokyo, showed
some wares of surpassing beauty, especi-
ally the one in very pale elusive shade and
covered with a floral scroll. Interesting
176
was a bucket-shaped porcelain vase, deco-
rated with fan designs, by Takiguchi-
Jozen, of Ashikaga-Prefecture. a 0
As usual, the exhibition contained a
number of interesting bamboo baskets for
flower arranging. Iizuka-Rokansai showed
several, among which the tall one with a
handle in pale bamboo was full of dignity.
Iizuka - Hosai's taro-shaped basket in
brownish bamboo had an excellent finish.
A grotesque basket made of bamboo roots
and vines by Narabe-Chikusai, of Ibaragi
Prefecture, was interesting. 0 0
With certain exceptions, vases shown
at the exhibition were more suitable for
a European room than for the toko-
noma of a chaseki (the room for cha-no-yu),
where the spirit of old Nippon still lives
undisturbed. Jiro Hirada.
PORCELAIN FLOWER VASE
BY TAKIGUCHI - JOZEN