“Yamato Nadeshiko - The Beauties of Ukiyo-e”
Ashiya City Museum of Art & History
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Reflecting on the pursuit of beauty by women through the ages this exhibition showcases 120 examples of elegantly portrayed women of Ukiyo-e, selected from the collection of the Kataoka family. Masters of ukiyo-e, including Yutaka Utagawa, Eisen Keisai, and Kuniyoshi Utagawa have come to define the Edo sense of beauty through their renderings of female charm and through their work we may peer into the common lives and habits of these women, chasing fireflies, riding upon boats, applying make up before the mirror, with female ideals also embodied in such historic figures as Lady Tokiwa or the court dancer Giou. Here we may observe not merely an innate physical beauty, but a beauty drawn out by their settings and surrounding characters and further developed by the emergence of new colors in ukiyo-e including Berlin blue, revealing the rich aesthetic of common women of the Edo period.
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[１]Gallery Talk
Dates: 4/19 (Sat), 5/3 (Sat), 5/24 (Sat), 6/7 (Sat), 6/14 (Sat) 14:00-
Venue: Exhibition Gallery
Admission: free(museum entrance required)
[２]Lecture : Bijinga Tour – The Art of Edo – An Introduction to the Kataoka Collection
Introducing the Bijinga work found amongst the 300 ukiyo-e of the Kataoka Collection built up during the Taisho era.
Date: 4/27 (Sun) 14:00-
Venue: 1F Lecture Room
Admission: free(museum entrance required)
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Schedule
from March 30, 2014 at 10:00 to June 15, 2014 at 16:30
Closed on Mondays (Open on a public holiday Monday but closed the following day)