Inherited Folding Screen Collection of Chiso

Chiso Gallery

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Chiso’s collection includes folding screens drawn by Japanese-style painters who once played an active role in Kyoto.
In the tumultuous Meiji Era, the environment surrounding Japanese-style painters was also unsettled. Chiso supported the lives of the painters as their patron by commissioning sketches of dyed fabrics, because some of the painters were impoverished due to the major social changes of the times. Realism and unconventional designs, which existing dyed fabrics lacked, appeared in the frames and works called artistic dyed fabrics, such as screens and folding screens, made of Yuzen fabrics and embroidery were produced based on the sketches produced by the Japanese-style painters. As a result, Chiso’s Yuzen fabrics came to be popular both within and outside of Japan.
The company was also involved in the establishment of the Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting and the Kyoto Art Association, which contributed to the development of modern arts and crafts in Kyoto.
These pieces were accumulated owing to Chiso’s relations with many people. The collection is not just for viewing. The viewers will see how this established company in Kyoto has developed along with the painters.

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