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Lot Essay
Kobayakawa was born in Fukuoka. At the age of nineteen he moved to Tokyo and became a pupil of the Nihonga painter Kaburagi Kiyokata (1878-1973). He submitted a painting in Nihonga style to the 1924 Teiten (Exhibition of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts). Around 1927 he began to study woodblock prints and in 1930-31 he self-published a series of six beauty prints in shin-hanga style.
This gorgeous pair of screens features fashions of the Genroku era (1688-1704). The women wear the finest tie-dyed, embroidered and hand-painted period costumes. Genroku-era pastimes shown on the left screen include backgammon and playing a small handdrum as well as reading and writing by candlelight. Women's clothing dominates the right screen. A young woman is being dressed by four attendants. Her robe was infused with the perfume from the incense burner at the right. The robe would have been draped over the lacquer stand. At the left an attendant holds up a hand mirror while another removes a robe from a lacquer tray.
This gorgeous pair of screens features fashions of the Genroku era (1688-1704). The women wear the finest tie-dyed, embroidered and hand-painted period costumes. Genroku-era pastimes shown on the left screen include backgammon and playing a small handdrum as well as reading and writing by candlelight. Women's clothing dominates the right screen. A young woman is being dressed by four attendants. Her robe was infused with the perfume from the incense burner at the right. The robe would have been draped over the lacquer stand. At the left an attendant holds up a hand mirror while another removes a robe from a lacquer tray.