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P-0324

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 34.2; Larghezza: 471.4

inchiostro, colori e oro 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

Painted scroll with new silk mount: hyōshi in kinran on a blue-green background with a small geometric checkerboard pattern and leaf washers; mikaeshi in paper decorated with kin-sunago; jikushu in turned natural cherry wood decorated in makie lacquer with cherry blossoms and petals. Consisting of four scenes, the scroll opens with a plum tree in blossom, in front of which a traveling puppeteer surrounded by three children performs his show. Nearby, between a cherry tree in blossom and a pine tree, a manzai dressed in a light gray suō with green and blue designs, with the haberi eoshi headdress and a folding fan in his hand, dances to the sound of the saizō's shoulder tambourine and the shakuhachi flute of two komusō. Three young boys and a woman with three little girls watch the dance. The second scene consists of three groups: two elderly tea-utensil sellers carrying auspicious pine branches; two boys turning to look at a yamabushi who is playing a conch shell and is accompanied by an attendant carrying on his back an enormous lotus leaf-shaped hat; an elegant effeminate actor accompanied by a young boy and followed by a servant carrying a kimono. The opening of the third episode is marked by a red plum tree. A Shinto priest advances with a ritual staff with scrolls. He is approached by a courtesan holding a child by the hand and is followed by an effeminate boy and a maid with an infant on her shoulder. The group arouses the curiosity of a street vendor. A short distance away, followed by two maids carrying bundles, a lady advances covering her head with a mantilla and turns back in the direction of a man with an enormous Chinese lion mask who is about to begin a dance to the rhythm of the kankaradaiko. Nearby, two blind men and a child are listening, and a lute player is striding away, with his instrument wrapped in a white cloth on his shoulder. The fourth scene begins near some cherry trees in bloom. A woman with her hair wrapped in a gray cap walks with a boy and a girl, while in the opposite direction a Shinto priestess walks, accompanied by a servant carrying a box. Lastly come three Ōharame carrying bundles of firewood. A stream winding between grassy banks closes the composition.