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Evening stroll along the Kamo River at Shijō in Kyoto
painting
- XIX
P-0240
Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 95.8; Larghezza: 33.1; Varie: Altezza montatura: 154.3 cm
Larghezza montatura: 37.1 cm
inchiostro e colori su seta
La Rinascita della Pittura Giapponese. Vent'anni di restauri al Museo Chiossone di Genova - Genova, Museo d'Arte Orientale Edoardo Chiossone - 28/02 - 29/06 2014
Still a nerve center of central Kyoto; at the beginning of the 17th century the Shijō Bridge became the focal point of the new chōnin culture, with particular attention to the emergence of "Women's Kabuki" (onna Kabuki), the first form of popular theater. In that very stretch, the dry riverbed of the Kamogawa was transformed during the summer into a public space used for all sorts of entertainment, including performances by the company of Okuni, the diva who founded Kabuki, whose theatrical enterprise is commemorated by a modern statue dedicated to her, placed on the left bank near the entrance to the bridge. Painting with original fukuro minchō shitate mount in hazelnut-colored shikeginu; jikushu in turned ivory. It depicts, with soft and cold colors just enlivened by some bright touches, the walk along the Kamo River and, specifically, the route passing through the Shijō Bridge, along the fourth road of Kyōto. A large crowd is crowding along the path.
