From 大近松全集 - Dai Chikamatsu Zenshu - The Heroine Yūgiri in Yūgiri Awa no Naruto, from the series Woodblock Print Supplements to the Complete Works of Chikamatsu, 1923, 18 prints
The print series Supplements of the Complete Works of Chikamatsu was published around 1923 and consists of 18 prints. Each print was designed by a different and well-established artist of the time. And each design represents a character from one of the play's written by Chikamatsu.
Subject: 大近松全集より「夕霧阿波鳴海」の夕霧 Yugiri from ``Yugiri Awa Naruto'' by 島成園 Shima Seien
Shima Seien 島成園 (February 1892 - March 5, 1970) PROFILE The youngest of the three most famous female nihonga artists of the Taishō era (1912-1926), Seien, along with Uemura Shōen 上村松園 (1875-1949) and Ikeda Shōen 池田蕉園 (1886-1917), was known as one of the "three 'en' of the three cities," Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo.[1] She became best known for breaking with the traditional idealized/romanticized portrayals of women in the genre known as bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women). She brought personal insight and experience into much of her early, pre-1924, work resulting in a realism absent in traditional bijin painting. These aspects of her work are epitomized in her 1918 painting titled Untitled an expressive self-portrait, discussed below.
Seien became an Osaka media sensation for her skill as a painter of haunting bijin scrolls , her success at the government sponsored Bunten exhibition in 1912 at the age of twenty, and her "striking looks".
Primarily a painter in the nihonga style, a mix of various Japanese styles and traditional materials often tinged with western influences, she was sought after as an illustrator for popular novels, women-focused magazines and, on occasion, a designer of woodblock prints. Her prints are extremely valuable and sought on by collectors.
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