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芳年 / 風俗三十二相 じれったさう

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作品
年代 : 明治21年
サイズ : 大判
刷 : 優良
保存 : 良
詳細 : 一部に薄み

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纏の羽織を背に、けだるげに煙管に手を置く女。髪の結い方一つをとっても、他には染まらぬ粋な人物像が浮かび上がる。

「風俗三十二相」は明治21年から出版された芳年美人画の代表作で、明治美人の最高峰といわれている。女性たちが見せる多彩な表情をテーマとしており、「◯◯そう」の題名で描かれるのは、江戸時代の浮世絵にはあまり見られない、豊かな表情を見せる女性たち。三十二相とは仏が備える優れた身体的特徴を数えた仏教用語で、これを女性になぞらえた美人画は江戸時代から描かれているが、芳年の作品には、伝統的な美人画表現にとらわれない近代的な視点を感じ取ることができる。

芳年(天保10 - 明治25年)は、幕末から明治前期にかけて活動した浮世絵師。
多種多様な浮世絵を手がけ、各分野において独特の画風を見せる。明治期において最も成功した浮世絵師であり、「最後の浮世絵師」と評価されることもある。門下から日本画や洋画で活躍する画家を多く輩出したという側面もある。
また、芳年は芥川龍之介、谷崎潤一郎、三島由紀夫、江戸川乱歩など、文人たちにも愛された。精神を病みながらも創作をつづけた芳年の鬼気迫る情念がこもった究極の美は、世界中で人気が高い。

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Information
Date : 1888
Size : O-ban
Impression : Very good
Condition : Good
Detail : Slight thinning

A woman listlessly holds a smoking pipe in her hand. Even something as simple as her hair style reveals a chic figure of a person who has a style of her own without mixing into any colors.

"32 Conventional Aspects" is Yoshitoshi's masterpiece of that depicted ladies of the Meiji era and was published from 1888.
The theme of this series is the diverse expressions of women. The works under the title "~So" depict women with rich expressions that are rarely seen in Ukiyo-e of the Edo period. The "thirty-two phases" is a Buddhist term that counts the outstanding physical features of a Buddha, and although beauty paintings that compare women to these phases have been produced since the Edo period, Yoshitoshi's works show a modern perspective that is not bound by the typical expression of beauty painting.

The word "相 (so)" in the title describes the state of a person, and in Japanese, it is attached to an adjective to indicate what state a person is in. In English, the expression would be "looks like~." In this series, 32 different facial expressions were shown with the play on words "~so. (Looks like~.)."

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 92) was a Ukiyo-e artist who was active from the end of the Tokugawa shogunate to the Meiji era.
He created various artworks, and we can see his unique expression styles in each genre of the works.
He was one of the most essential and famous Ukiyo-e artists in the Meiji era and had many pupils who became famous in the Japanese and western fields. Sometimes he is called "The last Ukiyo-e artist."
Many writers also loved him, such as Tanizaki Junichiro, Mishima Yukio, and Edogawa Ranpo. Moreover, the beautiful and fascinating artworks that were kept creating even though he was in a mental disorder enthralled people worldwide.


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