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C1925
Hyakuman
Artist:
Tsukioka Kogyo (1869 - 1927)
Woodblock from the series Nogaku hyakuban (One Hundred No Dramas) A man from Yoshino who has found a stray child takes him to pray at a temple in Saga and there sees a mad woman who prays and dances. The … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Hyakuman
Date:
C1925
Artist:
Tsukioka Kogyo (1869 - 1927)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Woodblock.
Image Size:
255mm
x 380mm
AUTHENTICITY
Guaranteed Vintage Item
dated:
1925
Description:
Woodblock from the series Nogaku hyakuban (One Hundred No Dramas)
A man from Yoshino who has found a stray child takes him to pray at a temple in Saga and there sees a mad woman who prays and dances. The boy recognizes her as his mother, and when she tells the man who she is and that her son disappeared after the death of her husband, he brings them together again. She prays to give thanks for this and they joyfully takes her son home with her.
Biography:
Tsukioka Kogyo (1869-1927)
Although Kogyo was born the year after the beginning of the Meiji restoration, which brought Japan into the modern Western world, he was to become famous for his depiction of scenes from the traditional Japanese theatre Noh. A talented and prolific artist he was to created over 550 prints of Noh plays.
At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to the great woodblock artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), who had married his mother. Yoshitoshi, had a “lifelong fascination with Noh” and influenced his apprentice to appreciate all aspects of Noh perfomances. After Yoshitoshi’s death, he went on to study with the painter and woodblock artist Ogata Gekko (1859-1920), who his more modern style Kogyo was to adapt for his woodblocks.
