"Sharaku", also known as one of the world's three largest portrait painters, suddenly appeared and finished his activities in 10 months. This is because someone is said to be a mysterious painter who has a different theory. Now it's crowded with topics surrounding Sharaku.
Look for Sharaku Toshusai! The researchers competed with each other, but in the first place, Gesshin Saito (Kanda Kishimachi master, compilation of "Edo Famous Zoukai" and "Toto Toshijiki") added a biography of ukiyo-e artists, "Augmented Ukiyo-e Paintings".
"People who are in Kansei during the Tenmei era. The popular name is Juro Saito. I live in Edo Hatchobori. The Noh actor of Awa Hou. There are many things that make a mica around."
It has become a common theory.
It is said that the location of Hatchobori, which is said to have lived, is Jizo Bridge, which is described in the later "Edo Family Name Edo Corner". It has also been confirmed in the Saito family's past book of Bodaiji Temple. He also found that his family was a Noh actor in Kita-ryu.
Jizo Bridge is located in the center of the Hatchobori Yoriki Dojingumi Yashiki Site, and is a bridge built over a large sewage moat from the Kamejima River, and is now near the intersection of Kayabacho 2-chome and 3-chome. (The cut-out picture circle part in the figure above).
The special exhibition Sharaku (below photo) is being held at the Tokyo National Museum (until June 12). Sharaku's works were 146 in the catalog of the exhibition, of which 142 were exhibited, and it was an interesting exhibition that could be compared with paintings drawn by another ukiyo-e artist of the same era. The Chiba City Museum of Art "Boston Museum of Art Ukiyo-e masterpiece exhibition Nishiki-e's Golden Age: Kiyocho, Utamaro, Sharaku" is also an exhibition with gems (until June 5).
According to the program publicity of NHK BS Premium (BS103) "Overseas Treasure Series", May 11 (Wednesday) 9: 00-10: 30 (3) "Thorough analysis, all Sharaku works-Ukiyo-e prints, all 145 pieces Talked about the secrets of beauty", one-third of the total 145 pieces are the treasures of overseas treasures that are the overseas. May 12 (Thursday) 9: 00-10: 30 (4) "Sharaku, the Mystery of Understanding-The Reality of Greek Ukiyo-e-e" In 2008, a fan drawing of a Sharaku hand brush was found on an island in the Adriatic Sea, Greece. Approach the sudden change of painting, the mystery that disappeared suddenly, and the truth of Sharaku. ●Akira Makibuchi
