AP074
Set of 4 Japanese silk paintings, Edo period (1603-1868), First quarter 19th Century
33" high, 15" wide

During the Nara period (710-784) the traditional technical methods of Japanese painting were established. The work was executed upon thin or gauzelike silk or soft paper with Chinese ink and watercolors. It was then mounted on silk brocade or its paper imitation and rolled upon a rod when not in view. The hanging scroll is called kakemono. The long, narrow horizontal scroll (emakimono), unrolled in the hands, usually illustrates a narrative with progressive scenes.

The school of painting started in the Edo period (1615-1867) by Koetsu Hon'ami and Sotatsu Tawaraya and continued by Ogata Korin and Ogata Kenzan represented a return to the native tradition of Japanese painting.

These four silk paintings are in the style of Kiyonaga, born in 1752 deceased 1815, a Japanese painter and designer of woodcuts of the Torii school best known for his unmannered and vivid representation of beautiful women and of warriors.

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