Shōgun-ke no fusumae = Fusuma paintings in the Shoguns' residence / henshū Yamaguchi Kenritsu Bijutsukan, Nezu Bijutsukan.
将軍家の襖絵 = Fusuma paintings in the Shoguns' residence 編集山口県立美術館, 根津美術館.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yamaguchi Kenritsu Bijutsukan, editor, host institution.

Nezu Bijutsukan, editor, host institution.

山口県立美術館, editor, host institution.

根津美術館, editor, host institution.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Screen painting, Japanese--To 1868--Exhibitions.

Screen painting, Japanese.

Painting, Japanese--To 1868--Exhibitions.

Painting, Japanese.

Fusuma screens--Japan--Exhibitions.

Fusuma screens.

Japan.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

135 pages : illustrations (chiiefly color), map ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Fusuma paintings in the Shoguns' residence

Place of Publication:

[Yamaguchi-shi] : Yamaguchi Kenritsu Bijutsukan ; [Tokyo] : Nezu Bijutsukan, 2022.

[Yamaguchi-shi] : 山口県立美術館 ; [Tokyo] : 根津美術館, 2022.

Language Note:

In Japanese, with foreword and list of works also in English.

Summary:

"The Muromachi period (1336-1573) was the point of origin for contemporary Japanese culture, the period in which many art forms thriving today--including Noh, Kyogen, the way of tea, and ikebana--were born. At the center of Muro-machi culture were the residences of the Ashikaga shoguns, rulers of the Muromachi shogunate, in Kyoto.The shoguns' residences consisted of a number of buildings, of which a particularly important structure was the kaisho. The kaisho was where people gathered, enjoyed Noh and Kyogen performances, held poetry parties at which they composed renga, linked verse, and participated in tea gatherings. The kaisho could be said to symbolize Muromachi culture; its fusuma sliding doors were adorned with paintings by the leading artists of their time, including Shūbun (n.d.), painter by appointment to the shogun's household.Sadly, all those fusuma paintings have been lost. Our eyes will never see them. We do know, however, what the subjects of those paintings were, thanks to descriptions in surviving texts. Also, extant folding screen paintings that are extremely similar to the fusuma paintings in size and format make it possible to imagine them, restoring them in our minds.This exhibition recreates the world of Fusuma Paintings in the Shoguns' Residence, by selecting classic subjects used in the fusuma paintings in the kaisho of the Ashikaga shoguns' residences, gathering folding screen paintings on those subjects from the latter half of the Muromachi through the Edo periods, from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, and displaying them as a group. Those fusuma paintings, the very heart of Muromachi-period painting, now seen through folding screens, provide an opportunity to reconsider the significant role they played in the history of painting in Japan"-- Foreword (page 135).

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at Yamaguchi Kenritsu Bijutsukan, September 16-October 16, 2022, and Nezu Bijutsukan, November 3-December 4, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-125).

OCLC:

1352453747