Twenty Scenes of Wakanoura

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Hirao Chikuka

  • Taisho period, 1922
  • color on silk
  • pair of volumes

Paintings – Japanese / Asian Paintings

Soseiryo was a villa built in Wakaura in 1920 by Tokugawa Yorimichi (1872–1925), the last head of the Kii Branch of the Tokugawa clan. Yorimichi commissioned this album with twenty-one views of the villa as a gift for the Imperial Family. The paintings were done by the Nanga ink painter Hirao Chikuka from Tanba-Sasayama, and the waka poems were contributed by the poet and calligrapher Ban Masaomi of the Ministry of the Imperial Household's Poetry Bureau.(「Wakyama and the Imperial Family」2021)

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Title/Name Twenty Scenes of Wakanoura
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Name
Artist/
Creator
Hirao Chikuka
Period/Era Taisho period
Century
Quantity pair of volumes
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Technique
color on silk
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Contents
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Origin
Excavation
Site
Related
Place
Hyogo Wakayama Wakayama Aichi
Provenance
Collection
No.
SZK000784
Category PaintingsJapanese / Asian Paintings
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Twenty Scenes of Wakanoura

Twenty Scenes of Wakanoura

Soseiryo was a villa built in Wakaura in 1920 by Tokugawa Yorimichi (1872–1925), the last head of the Kii Branch of the Tokugawa clan. Yorimichi commissioned this album with twenty-one views of the villa as a gift for the Imperial Family. The paintings were done by the Nanga ink painter Hirao Chikuka from Tanba-Sasayama, and the waka poems were contributed by the poet and calligrapher Ban Masaomi of the Ministry of the Imperial Household's Poetry Bureau.(「Wakyama and the Imperial Family」2021)