Kiyokata Kaburagi, a master of beauty painting, is a Japanese painter related to Chuo-ku who spent his childhood in the neighborhood of Kiboricho. Shortly after the war, "Morning and Evening Yasui" (Choseki Ankyo) drawn in 1948 (1948) recalls the atmosphere of the downtown area and Tsukiji area around 1887 (1887). . This work is currently being exhibited at the "Collection Exhibition Kiyokata and Stage 1" held at the Kaburagi Kiyokata Memorial Museum in Kamakura City (pictured above). Closed on Monday until March 11th.
Kiyokata Kaburagi was born in Kandasakumacho in 1878 (1878). My father is playwright Jono Rigiku. Moved to Kyobashi Minami Konya-cho, Tsukiji and Kibiki-cho. Entered Toshikata Mizuno at the age of 13. At the age of 17, he became an illustrator for Yamato Shimbun, run by his father.
"Tsukiji Akashicho", who won the Imperial Art Academy Prize at the 8th Teikoku Exhibition in 1927 (1927), is a masterpiece. From this time, the number of works depicting downtown customs lost in the Great Kanto Earthquake will increase.
After the war, he exhibited "Morning and Evening Yasui" at the 4th Nitten in 1948 (1948). Received the Order of Culture in 1954. Moved to Kamakura. He died at the age of 93 in 1968 (1972). The cemetery is Yanaka Cemetery.
"Morning and Evening Yasui" is a picture scroll about 4 meters long, depicting scenes of the lives of the common people of downtown Tokyo over the morning, noon, and evening scenes. In the morning view, there is a young newspaper delivery boy, a cleaning girl, a boiled beans sold, a well in the back alley, and a morning glory blooms beside the men who wash. In the daytime scene, do wind chimes selling avoid the sunshine in mobile stalls?
In the evening scene, a woman who polishes a smart woman's watering and a lamp firehouse. The old man, a cool evening adult, and a girl around the oriental lamp are playing with lanterns.
"In the form of the world around 1887, the place began in the morning around Tsukiji, Kyobashi-ku, near the sea, and it was a feature until the night of the Hatchobori area" ("Kiyokata Kaburagi (1) Production Aside from ")
Kiyokata painted this picture in 1948, when the war remained, at the age of 70. The scenery of the Meiji era disappeared in the Great Kanto Earthquake, and the fact that many things were lost in the Tokyo air raid seems to reflect the feelings of the past days. `` Until the water of Okawa, the southeast of the capital in the Meiji era pours into the sea of Tsukiji, my nostalgia in the downtown area will not be exhausted from the bottomless well '' (The same book) ) Tells his feelings.
In 1934 (1934), he published Tsukiji River. The neighborhood of Kibori-cho and Tsukiji, where I spent my childhood, may have been the hometown of a heart that I loved forever with vivid memories. ●Akira Makibuchi
