TERASAKI KOGYO: LADY MURASAKI SHIKIBU WRITING THE TALE OF GENJI

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TERASAKI KOGYO: LADY MURASAKI SHIKIBU WRITING THE TALE OF GENJI By Terasaki Kogyo (1866-1919), signed Kogyo with seal Kogyo Japan, Meiji (1868-1912)-Taisho period (1912-1926) Ink, watercolors, and gouache on paper. Mounted as a hanging scroll within a silk brocade frame with roiro-lacquered wood jikusaki (roller ends) decorated with gilt scrolls. Finely painted to depict Murasaki Shikibu seated by the light of a shokudai (candlestick), composing Chapter 8, Hana no En (The Festival of Cherry Blossoms / Under the Cherry Blossoms). She is dressed in a voluminous robe decorated with large foliate blossoms, partially obscured by a sudare (roll-up screen), a cherry blossom branch to the foreground. Inscriptions: To the bottom-left, signed 廣業 Kogyo and seal 廣業 Kogyo. Image SIZE 124 x 47.5 cm, SIZE incl. mounting 190 x 62.5 cm With a wood tomobako (storage box). Murasaki Shikibu, or Shijo, was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She was best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. Kogyo Terasaki (1866-1919) was the son of an impoverished samurai in the service of the Akita daimyo. He began his artistic career as a Kano painter, studying with Hidetoshi Komura before leaving for Tokyo in 1888. There he studied with Suian Hirafuku, a Murayama-Shijo painter, and later, the Nanga painter Hakuryu Sugawara. This diverse education led to a distinct artistic style. The year 1893 served as a turning point for the artist: when he lost his possessions in a fire, he decided to break away from the tropes of traditional painting. In the mid-1890s, Kogyo completed numerous kuchi-e (front pieces for books) for the publishing company Hakubunkan, as well as for the literary magazine Bungei Kurabu between 1897 to 1912. In addition to kuchi-e, Kogyo produced senso-e (war prints) during the Russo-Japanese and lithographic illustrations. During his career, Kogyo exhibited with the Japan Art Association, Japan Youth Painters’ Association and instituted Tenrai Gajuku, the most popular private art school in Tokyo in his time. Beginning in 1897, Kogyo served as a professor at Tokyo School of Fine Arts, briefly withdrawing to work with Okakura Tenshin at the Japan Art Institute, but returning to his post in 1901. A prolific painter of bijin (beautiful women), Kogyo’s beauties helped establish the genre in the state-sponsored Bunten. In 1918, he was selected as an artist of the Imperial Household, a high honor.

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