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Empress Komyo
- Meiji period, Dated 1897
- color on silk
- hanging scroll
Paintings – Japanese / Asian Paintings
This is Shimomura's representative work of his youth, depicting Empress Komyo, a devoted Buddhist, offering autumn grasses to Buddha joining her palms together. Empress Komyo is expressed with grace and dignity under the stable composition of the picture, by loose lines and soft tone of colors learned from old paintings. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.2」2003)
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Title/Name | Empress Komyo |
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Other Title/ Name |
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Artist/ Creator |
Shimomura Kanzan |
Period/Era | Meiji period |
Century | |
Quantity | hanging scroll |
Dimensions | |
Material/ Technique |
color on silk |
Signature/ Inscriptions |
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Country/ Origin |
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Excavation Site |
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Related Place |
Wakayama Tokyo Nara |
Provenance | |
Collection No. |
SZK000203 |
Category | Paintings – Japanese / Asian Paintings |
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Permalink | https://shozokan.nich.go.jp/en/collection/object/SZK000203 |
Last Updated |
2023/03/14 |
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Empress Komyo
Empress Komyo
This is Shimomura's representative work of his youth, depicting Empress Komyo, a devoted Buddhist, offering autumn grasses to Buddha joining her palms together. Empress Komyo is expressed with grace and dignity under the stable composition of the picture, by loose lines and soft tone of colors learned from old paintings. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.2」2003)