album;
calligraphy;
painting
- Museum number
- 1994,1112,0.1
- Title
- Object: Kinen yudanjo (A Souvenir Friendly Album)
- Description
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Folding album, painting, calligraphy by fourteen artists:
Opening 1: Calligraphy.
Opening 2: Landscape of trees and lake.
Opening 3: Flowers.
Opening 4: Welcoming poem.
Opening 5: Landscape of mountains.
Opening 6: Sage on an ox.
Opening 7: Chinese poem.
Opening 8: Stag.
Opening 9: Mother and two children.
Opening 10: Chinese poem in praise of Dr Mabie.
Opening 11: Cow and boy.
Opening 12: Hotei.
Opening 13: Peak of Mount Fuji.
Opening 14: Calligraphy.
Ink on paper. Signed and sealed.
- Production date
- 1912
- Dimensions
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Height: 24.30 centimetres (covers)
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Width: 18.20 centimetres (covers)
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- Curator's comments
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With ex libris, 'A Memorial Gift from the library of Hamilton Wright Mabie to the Free Public Library of Summit, New Jersey'.
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Clark 2001
The album contains fourteen paintings and calligraphies by different artists and is described as 'A Friendly Album presented to Dr Hamilton W. Mabie by the National Art Club of Tokio. Tokio Dec 12 - 1912'. Dr Hamilton Wright Mabie (1845-1916), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was visiting Japan in the winter of 1912/13 as an exchange professor sent by the Carnegie Peace Foundation. The artists and calligraphers represented are as follows: 1) Taguchi Beiko; 2) Terazaki Kogyo (1866-1919); 3) Fukui Kotei (1865-1937); 4) Maeda Kahan; 5) Yamaoka Beika (1868-1914); 6) Kobori Tomoto (1864-1931); 7) Sase Tokuzo; 8) Kawai Gyokudo (1873-1957); 9) Yuki Somei (1875-1957); 10) Imaizumi Yusaku; 11) Yamada Keichu (1868-1934); 12) Ogata Gekko (1859-1920); 13) Murata Tanryo (1874-1940); and 14) Masaki Naohiko. Many of these were professors at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko). Their inscriptions sometimes include personal salutations to Dr Mabie and all but the one by Imaizumi Yusaku (who was absent due to illness) seem to have been done on the spot at a welcoming dinner held in honour of the visiting American. Bringing to a close a genial succession of landscape and figure subjects, Tanryo's painting of the peak of Mt Fuji under a pure coating of snow strikes an unmistakable note of national pride.
The son of Murata Chokkei, a historian of old customs formerly in the service of the Tayasu branch of the ruling Tokugawa family, and also the painting student of Kawabe Mitate (1838-1905) of the Tosa school, Tanryo progressed to be one of the most important history painters of the Meiji era (1868-1912) and beyond. He was instrumental in the founding of the Japan Young Painters' Association (Nihon Seinen Kaiga Kyokai) in 1891 and often did commissions for the Imperial Household. In 1900 two paintings by him were awarded commendations at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. His last major commission, in 1935, was for the large painting 'Return of Government by Tokugawa Yoshinobu to the Imperial Family' ('Taisei hokan') in the Seitoku Memorial Painting Gallery of Meiji Shrine, Tokyo.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2001, 11 May-29 Jul, BM Japanese Galleries, '100 Views of Mount Fuji' (Opening 13).
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Acquisition notes
- Presented to Hamilton Wright Mabie by the National Art Club of Tokyo on 12th December 1912.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1994,1112,0.1
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.Add.1057 (Japanese Painting Additional Number)
