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Antique Japanese Bijin Scroll, Bathing Nude by Gyokuen browse these categories for related items... Directory: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Pre 1930: item # 727750 Please refer to our stock # ALR2313 when inquiring.
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| An intimate view into the daily life of old Japan by female artist Tanaka Gyokuen (b. 1912) enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yu-A-Bi. A beauty stands up from the steaming waters of a public bath house, safe in the segregated comfort of the steam, she wrings the tenugui across her back. Both sensual and yet without pretense, it is a scene the artist would have visited daily in the myriad backstreets of Kyotos neighborhood boroughs. The public bath was an important part of Kyoto life until the 1970s, commonly found in almost all neighborhoods, not just a place to bathe, but to socialize, gossip and renew the close ties vital to life in a city where land is measured by the square meter. Performed with light color and ink on silk accented by shiny feldspahic pigment for the steam, the scene bordered in hand-dyed blue silk like the light kimono the girl featured might wear home, extended in the same cloth in brown with solid ivory rollers. It is in excellent condition. Gyokuen, a prominent female figure in early 20th century Nihonga, was raised under the tutelage of one of Japans Greatest Uemura Shoen. | ||||||||||
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