Antique original woodblock print with frame-Beisen signed-"Doujouji"道成寺,Japan

Description: Original woodblock print triptych,meiji period – Kubota Beisen (1852-1906) – “Doujouji”道成寺 – Japan – 1901(Meiji 34) Dōjōji (道成寺) is a Japanese famous Noh play of the fourth category ("miscellaneous"), of unknown authorship.This painting depicts a scene in Dōjōji. The sign of Beisen hitsu(米僊筆) is written on .Publisher by Akiyama Takeemon(秋山武衛門) Frame size: 16"×12"; Image size: 13.25"×9" The painting is in good condition The following article is an introduction to the painter: Beisen was born in Kyoto in 1852 to Yamagiya Otoshichi, an inn-keeper. From an early age he displayed a love of drawing. Chaikin, cited above, tells us that the young artist painted graffiti on houses in his town including renditions of severed heads that he had seen displayed on the banks of the Kamogawa, which he was subsequently made to whitewash over. His father, expecting his son to follow him as an inn-keeper, did not encourage his artistic bent. However, at the age of 16 he was allowed to study with the Kyoto painter Suzuki Hyakunen (1825-1891) in the evenings. An 1898 letter from the journalist and editor Fukai Eigo, written to Arthur Diósy, founder of the Japan Society, discusses Beisen’s early struggle to pursue his passion. Beisen went on to study at the Kyoto studio of the artist Kono Bairei (1844-1895) with whom he developed a close relationship. Despite Beisen’s training with Hyakunen and Bariei he is considered largely self-taught by many sources with a unique style incorporating Western perspective and shadow3 and displaying “bold design and lightness of touch.” He was described as “the first painter in the Japanese style who has freed himself from the fetters of the old rules.” Initially, Beisen earned a living by drawing designs to be used on fans and clothing destined for export, but by 1878 he was sufficiently established as an artist to be asked by Bairei to join him at the Kyoto Prefectural Art School 京都府画学校, co-founded by Bairei and the painter Mochizuki Gyokusen 望月玉泉 (1834–1913). He later taught at the school. In 1886, along with Bairei, he founded the Kyoto Young Painters Study Group (Kyoto Seinen Kaiga Kenkyukai), aimed at helping train and promote young painters with a focus on talent rather than lineage. In that same year he was ordered to decorate the ceiling and doors of one of the rooms in the newly built Imperial Palace. Despite Beisen’s training with Hyakunen and Bariei he is considered largely self-taught by many sources with a unique style incorporating Western perspective and shadow3 and displaying “bold design and lightness of touch.” He was described as “the first painter in the Japanese style who has freed himself from the fetters of the old rules.” In 1886, along with Bairei, he founded the Kyoto Young Painters Study Group (Kyoto Seinen Kaiga Kenkyukai), aimed at helping train and promote young painters with a focus on talent rather than lineage. In that same year he was ordered to decorate the ceiling and doors of one of the rooms in the newly built Imperial Palace. In 1889, Beisen left for France to visit the Paris World Fair held in 1890 where he was awarded a gold medal. It was to be the first of at least two trips to the West. Upon his return in 1890 he co-founded the Kyoto Fine Art Association (Kyoto Bijutsu Kyōkai) with Kono Bairei. In 1890 after a stint as an illustrator at the Kyoto newspaper Kyoto Nippo, Beisen moved to Tokyo and went to work at Kokumin Shimbun, founded by Toktoki Sohō and “one of the most influential and enterprising daily newspapers in Tokio.” He is considered Japan’s first major newspaper artist8 and in 1893 he attended the World's Columbian Exhibition at Chicago as the newspaper’s artist-correspondent9 where he received a first class medal. He visited a number of cities during this trip to the United States, including Philadelphia where he received “the attention of Philadelphia society and the artists” and lectured (with use of an interpreter) “under the auspices of the Academy of Fine Arts.” While in Philadelphia he was hosted by the American realist painter Robert Henri (1865-1929). Beisen gave "a demonstration of quick-sketch brush-and-ink technique [and] for a brief period after meeting Kubota, John Sloan [American realist painter, 1871-1951] and Henri carried around a brush and bottle of ink to make on-the-spot sketches. In 1894 Beisen and his two sons Beisai 米斎 (1874-1937) and Kinsen 金僊 [金仙] (1875-1954) accompanied the Japanese army as war correspondents and illustrators for the Kokumin Shimbun. His illustrations, assisted by his sons, of that war were immensely popular and served as the basis for many of the vivid triptychs created by print artists who had never visited the front in Korea or China. On his return from the front, where he contracted dysentery, Emperor Meiji summoned “him to the General Headquarters…to draw pictures in the Imperial presence. In Japan, such an honour is very rarely accorded to artists, and the fac

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