Speaking of the New Year's issue of Wakame, having added two calendars in the appendix has shocked the industry (?). However, in the December / January issue released on November 1, 2018, we will focus on two ideas and senses in one! A special supplement, “Jakuchu & Kiichi Masterpiece Calendar 2019,” has been completed to highlight the charm of Japanese art! !
The quality of the calendar, which integrates the essence of Japanese art that Kazuya has dealt with up to now, has a great reputation in the editorial department! We will introduce how great the appendix of this issue is with five keywords.
Japanese New Year's No., Special Appendix Points for Absolute Buy!
1. A calendar that focuses on the Wakasu & Basics of the resurgence of popularity
2. Popular works of Wakatsuki & Kiichi
3. Close up the point of beautiful paradox
4. Enjoy the natural beauty of every month with a masterpiece
5. New Year's card with three famous works by Mount Fuji!
The cover is Wakatsuki's "Group crane map", and the back cover is Ryoichi's "Group crane plan screen" (Etsuko & Joe Price Collection). A unique crane competition with a wish!
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Attention to the resurgence of the popular Wakasu & Koichi in 2019
Close-up of Ito Wakatsuki and Suzuki Junichi is because they are already star artists who represent Japanese art, and of course there will be more buzz in 2019. The grounds to say so are the special exhibition “The Genealogy of Ecstasy Edo Painting Miracle World” held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum from February 9 (Sat) to April 7 (Sun), 2019.
The mysterious paintings and painters introduced in 1970's book “The Genealogy of Wonders” by the art historian Tsuji Nobuo are now leaders in the Japanese art boom. Their representative painters, Wakatsuki and Koichi, are sure to get attention again with the special exhibition! Take advantage of the 2019 art boom with this calendar, which features seven masterpieces from two unique and popular doubles.
Wakatsuki's "Tiger figure" (Etsuko & Joe Price Collection) is in March. Eyes tend to look cute, but the cut-out tiger's coats and dense brushstrokes are just as overwhelming.
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You can see the secrets of Wakasu & Yuichi's popular!
Before we introduce Wakasu & Koichi's works used in the calendar, let's introduce a brief profile of the two.
Ito Wakatsuki is born as the eldest son of a blue pottery shop located in the Kyoto and Sakai market in the middle of the Edo period, but he loves to draw, and he is more enthusiastic about sketching animals and plants around his family business, and masters drawing almost independently. In the late 30s, he handed over his family business to his brother and became a painter of great wishes. Soon after, he completed the masterpiece of Edo-painting, "Dai Kusai", and left many masterpieces of a wide variety of techniques, from works of high coloring to ink painting. The existence of Wakatsuki became known from the second half of Showa, and its popularity rose at every special exhibition, and at the “Wakasu” exhibition held in Paris this year (2018), “Iki-Tei” has a total of 33 widths It's been released for the first time in Europe, so we could have a large queue waiting for admission. It has become popular worldwide.
On the other hand, Suzuki Eiichi studied under the Edo period Edo period (Eridinpa) Sakai Hoji, and while possessing excellent drawing power, it is a dynamic called a vivid sense of color and eccentricity. An artist who left a work with a good composition. The style captures the hearts of foreign art lovers such as Fenollosa and Freere, and "The Suzuki Eiichi Edo-Ryo flagship" held at the Suntory Museum of Art in 2016, its appeal has become widely known, and now it is Wakasu It is rising rapidly as a rising star of Japanese art next to Japan. It is the number one of the artist who wants to hold it now.
In February it is Shinichi's "椿 屛" (Freere Art Museum). The famous paintings of Japanese art, which are considered to be unpopular, are famous in the United States as representative works of the Zen school.
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Purchase-Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F 1974. 36
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Close up the points of the beautiful paradox of Wakatsuki & Yuichi
The cover of "Wakasu & Koichi Masterpiece Calendar" is based on the theme of cranes of the fortune, and the front is Wakatsuki's "Gunka scrap" and the back is Koichi's "Guntsuru folding screen". In each beautiful coloring, the charm of the strange and funny weirdness is transmitted somewhere.
And what I put on the calendar of each month is a number of masterpieces of Wakasu and Junichi who cut off the beauty of Japan's natural beauty, which changes with the passage of time, with a unique perspective of strangeness. Moreover, close-up with round and square windows, and cutting off only the subject matter, it highlights the most important part of the work.
The natural motifs drawn by the two are the essence of delicate beauty unique to Japan. You can feel the change of the season, and you will nourish the mind that keeps you busy. An appendix that is particular about this is not something that is quite common!
Mayu's "Fujihana figure" (Hosomi Museum of Art). Yuichi's wisteria flower, which has drawn a bunch of images on the screen, is a masterpiece that combines natural beauty and decorativeness. It is believed to have influenced Art Nouveau.
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You can enjoy the natural beauty of every month with the masterpiece of Wakatsuki & Koichi
We introduce the lineup of works of each month that you are concerned about.
January: "Takebai Sotsuguru Figure (Chikubaishoku Waste)" Wakasu, a crane and bamboo plum alive
February: “Tsubaki-zu-buki-bu” which is considered to be a representative work of the American school
March: Dangerous but extremely cute "Tiger figure" Wakatsuki
April: "Sakuramachi Chuontongu" (Sakuramachi Chuagonzou), a heart-warming dance scene with elegant flower arrangement
May: "Fujika Figure (Toukazu)" Junichi who elaborates on graphic design
June: "Hyuka Hana Double Chicken Figure (Ajisai Sokeizu)" Wakasu where the taste of Wakatsuki is fully appreciated
July: "Jakuchu Gazoo" Genpo Yoka (hermitage), chicken head (Keito) "Wakasu" with surprising monotone is fresh
August: "Natsu Aki Keiryu-zu Screen" where the bright summer-like nature is in full bloom
September: Wakatsuki Wakatsuki, a sumi painting suitable for the season I think of
October: Shiki Kachozu, a figure of Shikikachozu, which celebrates the beauty of the changing season
November: "Susukinozubyoubu" 其一 that seems to be heard until the sound of a dead tree
December: "Setsuroen Ozu" Wakasu, which closes the year with auspicious birds. All drawings of each close-up work are listed on the final page, with a commentary on the work. You
In July, Wakatsuki "Wakatsuki Art Museum Genakuhana Sugamo, Chicken Head" (Geidoudo). The 48 drawings of the combination of seasonal plants and insects and reptiles, carved from wood by Wakatsuki Mizuki, are excellent in design.
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New Year's cards of famous paintings of Mt. Fuji also follow!
In addition, there is another special appendix, “The 21st Year of the Fujisan Nagura New Year's Greeting Card,” which is composed of 3 works of famous Mount Fuji that are essential for Japanese New Year.
Yokosuka Taikan (Yokoya Ikan) and Yuko Kataoka (Kataoka Mako) who left many of the famous paintings of Mt. Fuji, and the New Year's card of the Fujisan of Sakai's three-way three of the design drawn as a new year Let's send your heart!
"The 21st Century Fuji Sanmei Art New Year's Card" is Yokoyama Taikan "Gunjo Fuji" (Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art), Kataoka Kumako "First Mount Snow Fuji Mountain" (Takasaki Tower Museum of Art stock Company Yamatane deposit), plus three luxurious works of Sakai Hoji "Etegami (Etegami)" (Shizukado Bunko Art Museum)!
The Japanese-style 12/1 issue is absolutely sold out!
Sentence / photograph / Akira Yamamoto
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