ART HIS 42C Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sakutarō Hagiwara, Kōshirō Onchi, Woody Plant
23 Jul 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Name: pair of braziers with lacquer rising sun. May seem to be abstract, but the storage-box inscription specifies that it represents the rising sun (hinode), with stylized solar rays projecting through space. Dramatic two-tone pattern is created with polished black-lacquer and polished cinnabar lacquer. The thin lines dividing the two color forms are highlighted with gold foil. Oval holes at either side serve as simple handles. This motif may well indicate that these braziers were intended for the new-year season. May also connect with the intense patriotism of the era, when rising-sun symbolism proliferated. Functional objects could be enlivened through simple yet powerful designs. Familiar emblems could be reimagined in the context of modernism. Artists of the s saku-hanga ("creative prints") movement took control of every aspect of the printmaking process design, carving, and printing were by the same pair of hands. Name: two bodhisattva and ten great disciples of sakyamuni. Pair of six-panel screens; twelve woodcuts, ink on paper.
