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| Artist: | Asano Takeji — 浅野竹二 |
| Title: | Chasing Away the Devil, Hojuji Temple — 鬼法楽 |
| Series: | Kyoto Events — 京洛行事 |
| Date of first edition?: | 1963 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Shikishi
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| Format (this edition): | Shikishi |
| DB artwork code: | 46807 |
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Oni Horaku, Hojuji Temple, Kyoto
鬼法楽 京都 法住寺
Ogomaku (Great Holy Fire Festival) at Hojuji temple features Oni Horaku (Chasing Away Devil). Three devils symbolising greed, anger, and delusion perform a
humorous dance around the holy fire, in which goma prayer sticks are later burnt. In Buddhism the three fundamental earthly desires are called sandoku (the
three evil poisons). When Ogomaku starts, the devils brandish torches, swords, hammers, and axes, trying to interrupt the Great Holy Fire Festival. They run away in agony, when a ceremonial archer, who wards off evils, releases arrows to drive away the demons. (Ref. Moja Okuri, Oni oi shiki, Namahage)
After the ceremony the temple serves visitors hot noodles (udon) and rice wine (sake). Sake is poured from a bamboo tube, which gives it a special flavour. This kind of sake is called sasazake. It is said to be efficacious against cancer. From: http://photojapan.karigrohn.com/Oni/Oni-horaku/onihoraku.html |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
『浅野竹二自刻自摺木版画 京洛行事』、 昭和38年刊、私家版(浅野竹二)。帙付。外装と内容物すべて揃いの完品です。
帙と1枚目のケースに避けがたい微細な経年シミあり。そのほかは、きわめて綺麗で状態良好です（極美品）。 現在、絶版もしくは版元品切れ。
浅野竹二が、京都の祭りや行事などを題材に、自画・自刻・自摺で制作したオリジナル木版画12点を収めた『京洛行事』完品です。木版画はシートサイズ268*303mm、各版上サイン入。1点ごとにマット状の紙たとうに丁寧に収められており、すべてシミひとつない極美のコンディションに恵まれています。各作品のタイトルは以下の通りです。
「鬼法楽」「やすらい祭」「壬生狂言」「葵祭」「三船祭」「竹伐り」「祇園祭」「六斎念仏」「鳥角力」「赦免地踊」「牛祭」「時代祭」
帙サイズ368*395mm。 |
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| Artist Bio: |
Asano Takeji was born in Kyoto in 1900 and studied art in his youth. He graduated from the Kyoto City School of Fine Arts in 1919 and subsequently from the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting in 1923. One of his early teachers was the artist and printmaker Tsuchida Bakusen, with whom he studied Japanese-style painting. Asano helped to organise the Kyoto Creative Print Society (Kyoto Sosaku-Hanga Kyokai) in 1929.
In 1930, Asano contributed several designs to a series of prints titled "Creative Prints of Twelve Months in new Kyoto" (Sosaku-hanga shin Kyoto junikagetsu). These prints were published by Uchida. The other artists contributing to this series were Benji Asada and Tomikichiro Tokuriki, also members of the Kyoto Creative Print Society. Asano's work as a shin hanga print designer continued throughout the 1930's, but along the way he learned the skills of carving and printing. This enabled him to create his own self-carved and self-printed series of landscape prints titled "Noted Views in the Kyoto-Osaka Area" (Kinki meisho fukei) in 1947.
During the 1950's, Asano designed numerous landscape prints for the publisher Unsodo. These popular landscape prints are still being reprinted today. Original Unsodo prints have the Japanese date printed in the margin, while the modern reprints lack the date. Inspired by the encouragement of the Lithuanian-American social realism artist Ben Shahn, who once visited him in his studio and remained his friend, Asano established a freer artistic style often featuring animals in bold colours, later in his career. Asano continued to work as a printmaker during the 1970's and 80's. These late prints were simple and often humorous, signed with the letters T.A. and the date.
This information has been excerpted from various web sources and from Merritt and Yamada's Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975.
浅野 竹二（あさの たけじ、明治33年（1900年）10月24日-平成10年（1998年）2月10日）
京都の日本画家、版画家。京都市立絵画専門学校で日本画を専攻、途中油絵に手をそめましたが、再び日本画に復帰、土田麦僊の率いる「山南塾」に入塾し、国画創作協会展に出品するなど日本画家として活躍しました。 |
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