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| Notes (1st edition) | Artist: Miki Suizan Title: Evening at Kiyamachi during the Daimonji Festival Series: Shinsen Kyoto Meisho Dai-isshu – First Series of Collected Views of Kyoto Date: 1924? 1925? Publisher: Sato Shotaro Edition: of 200 Format: Large oban (11" X 16 1/2") Comment: The Daimonji (Dai, the Chinese character for big, large) Festival is the culmination of the O-Bon festival on August 16th, in which five giant bonfires are lit on mountains surrounding Kyoto. It signifies the moment when the spirits of deceased family members, who are said to visit this world during O-Bon, are believed to be returning to the spirit world. In this design, a woman catches a reflection of the fire in a mirror. | |
| Publisher (this edition): | Sato Shotaro | Sato Shotaro |
| Date of this item: | 1924 | 1924 |
| Notes (this edition) These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: | Monday, 2 August 2010 Artist: Miki Suizan Title: Evening at Kiyamachi during the Daimonji Festival Series: Shinsen Kyoto Meisho Dai-isshu – First Series of Collected Views of Kyoto Date: 1925 Publisher: Sato Shotaro Edition: 65/200 Format: Large oban (11" X 16 1/2") |
Tuesday, 13 September 2005 Evening at Kiyamachi during the Daimonji Festival Lot AU56 Artist: Miki Suizan Format: Dai-oban tate-e: 16.75" x 11" Subject: Miki Suizan designed bijin-ga prints whose style shows the influence of ukiyo-e portraiture. Born in Hyogo in 1887, he became a pupil of the well known artist Takeuchi Seiho in 1903. Ten years later, he showed nihon-ga paintings in the 7th Bunten of 1913. Around 1924, Miki worked with the Kyoto publisher Sato Shotaro on the design of six bijin-ga and eight landscape prints, carved by Maeda and printed by Oiwa. Suizan's prints were exhibited the following year along with prints by Yoshikawa Kanpo, also published by Sato Shotaro. Prints by both artists were included in the 1930 Toledo exhibition. Miki continued to participated in the Bunten, Teiten, and Shin Bunten exhibitions until 1942. He died in 1957. Although his prints are of traditional subject matter, they have a modern feeling, combining highly detailed portraits with abstracted landscapes. This bijin design is from his early period. This example is from the first limited edition (stamped red seal on verso), and unlike later editions bears his signature and seal on the lantern top left. Publisher: Sato Shotaro Date: 1924 Condition: Full size. Paper, as uaual, a little toned in top margin and on verso. Minor marks and flaws. Generally good state. Colour: Very good Impression: Fine with extensive gauffrage |