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!["Rosetsu uses the wisteria tree to frame the painting and to create two separate planes, the foreground and the background. While doing this, he does not paint a very prominent background, thus making the foreground landscape more important and the focal point of the painting...The sinewy shape of the wisteria dominates the painting. There appear to be two separate trunks rooted to a small sliver of land pictured at the left side of the image. These trunks merge into one stem, forming a curve that snugly holds the monkey’s body. The branch continues upward, disappearing at one point until it reappears, winding around the right side of the painting. Rosetsu uses a dark ink to create the trunk and branches of the wisteria, and there does not appear to be any indication of shading or altering the color to appear lighter. This darkening is especially noticeable compared to the stark, white flowers at the top of the painting. Their stems are soft and wispy, as if they are floating in the air."<br /](/media/W1siZiIsIjIwMjIvMDUvMjUvNmkwdGlxNHByYl9kZWZhdWx0LmpwZyJdLFsicCIsInRodW1iIiwiMjQweDIwMCJdXQ?sha=33b948efa249a29f ""Rosetsu uses the wisteria tree to frame the painting and to create two separate planes, the foreground and the background. While doing this, he does not paint a very prominent background, thus making the foreground landscape more important and the focal point of the painting...The sinewy shape of the wisteria dominates the painting. There appear to be two separate trunks rooted to a small sliver of land pictured at the left side of the image. These trunks merge into one stem, forming a curve that snugly holds the monkey’s body. The branch continues upward, disappearing at one point until it reappears, winding around the right side of the painting. Rosetsu uses a dark ink to create the trunk and branches of the wisteria, and there does not appear to be any indication of shading or altering the color to appear lighter. This darkening is especially noticeable compared to the stark, white flowers at the top of the painting. Their stems are soft and wispy, as if they are floating in the air."<br /")
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Japanese Beauty in a Red Maple Leaf Robe
Accession Number
1985/2.7
Title
Japanese Beauty in a Red Maple Leaf Robe
Artist(s)
Yamaguchi Soken (Sojun)
Object Creation Date
early 19th century
Medium & Support
hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
Dimensions
48 1/2 in. x 17 3/4 in. ( 123.2 cm x 45.1 cm )
Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern
Label copy
Gallery Rotation Fall 2013
Yamaguchi Soken
Japan, 1759–1818
Japanese Beauty in a Red Maple Leaf Robe
Edo period (1615–1868)
Early 19th century
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern, 1985/2.7
Yamaguchi Soken, a Kyoto artist, was a talented pupil of Maruyama Okyo (1733–1795), an influential and commercially successful painter who pioneered a new naturalism perfectly in accord with the no-nonsense taste of an increasingly secular society and his merchant patrons. Soken excelled at bijinga (“pictures of beautiful women”). This one, with an arm withdrawn into her sleeve and a hand working to let down her hair, appears to be undressing; the soft reddish blush on her cheek and her averted eyes suggest that she is aware of being observed.
Subject matter
Living in Kyoto, Soken was one of Maruyama Okyo's ten best pupils. He excelled in his depictions of beautiful women. The woman in this work, with one arm withdraw into her sleeve and a hand working to let down her hair, appears to be undressing. The soft reddish blush on her cheek and her averted eyes suggest that she is aware of being observed.
Physical Description
This image is of a lone female figure centrally located on the scroll. The dominate color of the image is red. The figure's outer kimono is decorated with red and gold maple leaves.
Primary Object Classification
Painting
Primary Object Type
hanging scroll
Additional Object Classification(s)
Painting
Collection Area
Asian
Rights
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit http://umma.umich.edu/request-image for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.
Keywords
Ukiyo-e
beauty
courtesans
hanging scrolls
kimonos
robes (main garments)
women (female humans)
1985/2.7
Title
Japanese Beauty in a Red Maple Leaf Robe
Artist(s)
Yamaguchi Soken (Sojun)
Object Creation Date
early 19th century
Medium & Support
hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
Dimensions
48 1/2 in. x 17 3/4 in. ( 123.2 cm x 45.1 cm )
Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern
Label copy
Gallery Rotation Fall 2013
Yamaguchi Soken
Japan, 1759–1818
Japanese Beauty in a Red Maple Leaf Robe
Edo period (1615–1868)
Early 19th century
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern, 1985/2.7
Yamaguchi Soken, a Kyoto artist, was a talented pupil of Maruyama Okyo (1733–1795), an influential and commercially successful painter who pioneered a new naturalism perfectly in accord with the no-nonsense taste of an increasingly secular society and his merchant patrons. Soken excelled at bijinga (“pictures of beautiful women”). This one, with an arm withdrawn into her sleeve and a hand working to let down her hair, appears to be undressing; the soft reddish blush on her cheek and her averted eyes suggest that she is aware of being observed.
Subject matter
Living in Kyoto, Soken was one of Maruyama Okyo's ten best pupils. He excelled in his depictions of beautiful women. The woman in this work, with one arm withdraw into her sleeve and a hand working to let down her hair, appears to be undressing. The soft reddish blush on her cheek and her averted eyes suggest that she is aware of being observed.
Physical Description
This image is of a lone female figure centrally located on the scroll. The dominate color of the image is red. The figure's outer kimono is decorated with red and gold maple leaves.
Primary Object Classification
Painting
Primary Object Type
hanging scroll
Additional Object Classification(s)
Painting
Collection Area
Asian
Rights
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit http://umma.umich.edu/request-image for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.
Keywords
Ukiyo-e
beauty
courtesans
hanging scrolls
kimonos
robes (main garments)
women (female humans)
