{"id":20650,"date":"2024-03-08T11:18:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T02:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/?p=20650"},"modified":"2024-04-10T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T00:05:21","slug":"%e3%80%8a%e4%bc%81%e7%94%bb%e5%b1%95%e3%80%8b%e6%b5%ae%e4%b8%96%e3%81%ae%e5%92%8c%e6%9c%ac%e3%80%80%ef%bc%8d%e6%b1%9f%e6%88%b8%e5%89%8d%e6%9c%9f%e7%b5%b5%e5%85%a5%e3%82%8a%e6%9c%ac%e3%81%ae__trashed-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/news-en\/2024\/03\/08\/20650\/","title":{"rendered":"\u300aExhibition\u300bSumiyoshi Hiroyuki\u2019s Folding Screen “Courtiers Hawking in Spring and Winter\u201d: Draft Paintings Bring Gift to the Chos\u014fn Royal Court Back to Life (3\/22\uff5e4\/30)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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🌸In-Gallery Talk with the Curator (Updated: April 10)🌸<\/strong>
\nDate 1: April 16 (Tue)<\/strong>
\nDate 2: April 24 (Wed)<\/strong>
\nStarts at 2:00 pm on both dates.<\/strong>
\nPlease meet us at the Exhibition Room, Center for Scholarly Information, 2nd floor.
\nNo registration needed. Anyone is welcome to join.
\n*The talk will be conducted in Japanese.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The draft paintings for the spring section of “Courtiers Hawking in Spring and Winter” \/ Click to see the IIIF high-resolution image.<\/p><\/div>\n

Greetings<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Courtier in a hat decorated with sakura (from the draft paintings)<\/p><\/div>\n

We are pleased to welcome you to Waseda University Library\u2019s special exhibition \u201cSumiyoshi Hiroyuki\u2019s Folding Screen \u2018Courtiers Hawking in Spring and Winter\u2019: Draft Paintings Bring Gift to the Chos\u014fn Royal Court Back to Life.\u201d The folding screen in question was commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to be presented to the twelfth embassy from the Chos\u014fn court in 1811. The artist, Sumiyoshi Hiroyuki (1755-1811), was an official painter to the shogunate. The Library\u2019s collection includes the draft paintings for the spring section of the folding screen. Unfortunately, however, the completed work as well as the draft paintings for the winter section have been lost.<\/p>\n

In October 2017, cultural exchanges between Japan and Korea became the focus of attention when documents concerning the embassies of the Chos\u014fn royal court to Japan were listed on UNESCO\u2019s Memory of the World Register. Nonetheless, most of the 200 some folding screens presented to the Chos\u014fn court over the course of twelve diplomatic missions between 1607 and 1811, as well as the draft paintings upon which they were presumably based, have been lost. The surviving draft paintings exhibited here are thus important to understanding the ideas behind these gifts.<\/p>\n

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Digitally colored draft painting based on the information gleaned from the high-resolution images and from contemporary sources<\/p><\/div>\n

The paintings are large, even for folding screens, and since they are difficult to examine in detail, we had them photographed with a high image resolution scanner. The resulting images enabled us to read detailed annotations specifying color, materials, changes and so on and thus envisage what the finished paintings might have looked like. We also consulted Sumiyoshi Hiroyuki\u2019s record of the creation of the now lost winter paintings, Go-by\u014dbu no ki<\/em> (Record of a folding screen), in the collection of the Archives and Mausolea Department of the Imperial Household Agency.<\/p>\n

In this exhibition timed to coincide with spring, we display all the draft paintings for spring alongside our attempted recreations of the finished versions, based on information gleaned from the high-resolution images and from contemporary sources.<\/p>\n

Waseda University Library<\/p>\n

Dates & Venue<\/h3>\n
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Click to see the flyer including the back side (in Japanese)<\/p><\/div>\n

Dates: <\/b>March 22 (Fri) – April 30 (Tue), 2024 *Closed on Sundays<\/span>
\nHours: <\/strong>10:00\uff5e18:00
\nVenue: <\/strong>Exhibition Room, Center for Scholarly Information, 2nd floor<\/p>\n