![Gion court music and dance [Gionbagaku] (no date)](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3406/3262609513_c87378ca45.jpg)
![The Portable Shines Guon [Gionemikoshi] (9th century)](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3495/3262616517_4170fa6dc2.jpg)
The Miyako1 Nenju Gyoji Gajo (Picture Album of Annual Festivals in the Miyako) is a 2-volume work, delicately hand-painted on silk by Nakajima Soyo in 1928 and available online [thumbnails] among the Nichibunken databases at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto (homepage in english).
"[The albums depict] the annual festivals and customs of Kyoto at the beginning of the Showa2 period. These paintings are accompanied by explanatory texts written by the folklorist and Kyoto scholar Ema Tsutomu."1Miyako ('capital') is an archaic name for Kyoto [and Tokyo (Edo)]
2The Showa period corresponds to the reign of Emperor Hirohito (1926-1989*)
The mouseover titles in the above images -- most were spot/stain cleaned moderately -- are at best an approximation from wonky translations. The dates in the titles refer to the time each festival began, *I think*. There are a few more saved in the set.
3 comments :
The demonic figures are fun but I think I especially like the dark fiery festivals as I don't remember seeing these depicted before (in my relatively limited acquaintance with Japanese art).
The colors are just breathtaking!
I am doing an art project and out of curiosity for my prep sheet,who is the artist of these works
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