The Complete Works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (Dai Chikamatsu zenshu)
Dai Chikamatsu zenshu
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Suga Tatehiko's contribution to The Complete Works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (Dai Chikamatsu zenshu) belongs to the deluxe publishing project issued in the 1920s by the Chikamatsu Zenshu Kankokai, which gathered the puppet and kabuki plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) into a multi-volume scholarly edition with frontispiece prints commissioned from the leading nihonga painters of the day. Suga Tatehiko (1878-1963) was a Meiji-Taisho nihonga painter trained in the orthodox Tokyo line, a pupil of Kawabata Gyokusho whose mature practice combined a careful documentary engagement with the older Japanese subjects with the formal vocabulary that the Bunten and Teiten exhibitions had codified for the modern nihonga register. His sheet for the Chikamatsu project belongs alongside contributions by Uemura Shoen, Kaburaki Kiyokata, and other senior nihonga figures who were invited to translate scenes from Chikamatsu's domestic and historical plays into the woodblock medium for the limited subscription audience of the deluxe edition. Suga's contribution characteristically depicts a scene from one of the historical plays (jidaimono) or domestic tragedies (sewamono), drawn in the firm contour and reserved palette of his nihonga practice, with the costume, hairstyle, and setting detail registered with the documentary precision appropriate to a scholarly literary edition. The print is issued in a deluxe format with the production values of the limited subscription print, employing graduated color and selective metallic pigment, and is signed and sealed by the artist. The Chikamatsu commission belongs to the broader 1920s nihonga engagement with the canonical literary and theatrical past, a project through which the senior generation of the field contributed to the consolidation of a modern visual archive of the older Japanese tradition. Impressions are catalogued among the Suga holdings of the Tokyo National Museum, the Kyoto National Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where the artist's print and painting work figures in the institutional record of the late-Meiji and Taisho nihonga generation.
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Suga Tatehiko's contribution to The Complete Works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (Dai Chikamatsu zenshu) belongs to the deluxe publishing project issued in the 1920s by the Chikamatsu Zenshu Kankokai, which gathered the puppet and kabuki plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) into a multi-volume scholarly edition with frontispiece prints commissioned from the leading nihonga painters of the day. Suga Tatehiko (1878-1963) was a Meiji-Taisho nihonga painter trained in the orthodox Tokyo line, a pupil of Kawabata Gyokusho whose mature practice combined a careful documentary engagement with the older Japanese subjects with the formal vocabulary that the Bunten and Teiten exhibitions had codified for the modern nihonga register. His sheet for the Chikamatsu project belongs alongside contributions by Uemura Shoen, Kaburaki Kiyokata, and other senior nihonga figures who were invited to translate scenes from Chikamatsu's domestic and historical plays into the woodblock medium for the limited subscription audience of the deluxe edition. Suga's contribution characteristically depicts a scene from one of the historical plays (jidaimono) or domestic tragedies (sewamono), drawn in the firm contour and reserved palette of his nihonga practice, with the costume, hairstyle, and setting detail registered with the documentary precision appropriate to a scholarly literary edition. The print is issued in a deluxe format with the production values of the limited subscription print, employing graduated color and selective metallic pigment, and is signed and sealed by the artist. The Chikamatsu commission belongs to the broader 1920s nihonga engagement with the canonical literary and theatrical past, a project through which the senior generation of the field contributed to the consolidation of a modern visual archive of the older Japanese tradition. Impressions are catalogued among the Suga holdings of the Tokyo National Museum, the Kyoto National Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where the artist's print and painting work figures in the institutional record of the late-Meiji and Taisho nihonga generation.
The The Complete Works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (Dai Chikamatsu zenshu) series contains 1 prints, created by Suga Tatehiko.
The The Complete Works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (Dai Chikamatsu zenshu) series was created by Suga Tatehiko (須賀建彦).
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