Takeshi Nishijima

Calendar for July, 1975 (Gion Festival in Kyoto)

Takeshi Nishijima’s Calendar for July, 1975 (Gion Festival in Kyoto) is an original hand-stenciled dye print created for his 1975 Mingei annual calendar. As the artist was a lifelong resident of Kyoto, scenes of that city frequently appear in his art. Nishijima’s kataezome calendars often came with brief descriptions. For July, 1975 he wrote, “July: The 31 days (of July) are divided by scenes from the Gion Festival in Kyoto.” An annual event with festivities that last all month, the Gion Matsuri, festival of Yasaka Shrine is a religious event considered to be the most famous and longest running festival in Japan. The procession of floats begins on July 17 and takes place on the opposite side of Kamo River. On the 17th, the floats start from Shijo-Karasuma and the on the 25th, they starts from Karasuma-Oike. The whole procession is made up of 23 elaborately decorated floats called yama and ten huge & beautifully ornate floats called hoko known as Yamaboko or (Yamahoko).

Calendar for July, 1975 (Gion Festival in Kyoto) is printed upon hand-made mulberry (rice) paper and with full margins as published in Kyoto for Takeshi Nishijima in 1974-1975. It is a fine, original example of the Mingei art and the katazome (kataezome) calendars created by the 20th century Japanese artist, Takeshi Nishijima.

Original Hand Stenciled Dye Print (Kataezome) by the Japanese artist, Takeshi Nishijima.

Calendar for July, 1975 (Gion Festival in Kyoto)

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Takeshi Nishijima (Kyoto, Japan, 1929 - 2003)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	-
01.-		Calendar for November, 1975 (Evening Glow, Kyoto) by Takeshi Nishijima	Original Hand-Stenciled Dye Print	1974-1975
02.-		Calendar for July, 1975 (Gion Festival in Kyoto) by Takeshi Nishijima	Original Hand-Stenciled Dye Print	1974-1975
03.-		Calendar for May, 1975 (Goldfish and Seaweed) by Takeshi Nishijima	Original Hand-Stenciled Dye Print	1974-1975
04.-		Calendar for June, 1975 (Hydrangea) by Takeshi Nishijima	Original Hand-Stenciled Dye Print	1974-1975
05.-		Calendar for October, 1975 (Jidai-Matsuri Pageant, Kyoto) by Takeshi Nishijima	Original Hand-Stenciled Dye Print	1974-1975
06.-		Calendar for September, 1975 (Kanba Falls, Okayama) by Takeshi Nishijima	Original Hand-Stenciled Dye Print	1974-1975
07.-		Calendar for August, 1975 (Korakuen Gardens, Okayama) by Takeshi Nishijima	Original Hand-Stenciled Dye Print	1974-1975
08.-		Calendar for March, 1975 (Melting Snow at Lake Towada) by Takeshi Nishijima	Original Hand-Stenciled Dye Print	1974-1975
09.-		Calendar for January, 1975 (Wakasa Bay, near Kyoto) by Takeshi Nishijima	Original Hand-Stenciled Dye Print	1974-1975

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Title:	Calendar for July, 1975 (Gion Festival in Kyoto)
Artist:	Nishijima, Takeshi (Kyoto, Japan, 1929 - 2003)
Date:	1974-1975
Medium:	Original Hand-Stenciled Dye Print
Note:	Takeshi Nishijima: Born into a cloth dyers family, Takeshi Nishijima first studied textile arts under Inagaki Toshijiro (1902-1963) at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts. During his career Nishijima exhibited both his textile designs and graphic art, most particularly prints of katazome (kataezome) design. He participated in numerous exhibitions (both in Japan and the United States) and was awarded the Grand Prize at the Kyoto Art Exhibit.
	Like the contemporary artist, Keisuke Serizawa (1895-1984), Takeshi Nishijima was a major figure within the Mingei (Folk Art) movement, a twentieth century endeavour to preserve traditional Japanese arts and crafts. The stencil dyed calendar prints were an integral expression of Mingei art, and both Serizawa and Nishijima created these striking calendar images for mostly Western collectors, such as this original hand-stenciled die print entitled, Calendar for July, 1975 (Gion Festival in Kyoto).
	Nishijima served as an instructor of katazome design and dyeing crafts at both the Ikenobo College in Kyoto and the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts. The latter institution awarded him the title of Professor Emeritus in 1995. Shortly thereafter Nishijima received the Kyoto Prefecture Culture Award and the city’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Takeshi Nishijima' s art can be found in the Copper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY, the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, as well as other important private and public institutions.
	An important production of Nishijima’s work was the annual calendars that he created from approximately 1968 to the early 1980’s. Each of his calendars contained thirteen original prints, one for each month and a frontis-piece design. Many of Takeshi Nishijima’s katazome calendars were printed by Kuriyama Haruo, (Japanese, active 1970’s), President of the Wazome-Kogei Co., Kyoto (a Japanese Dye Pattern Craft Company). The Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, contains an impression of Nishijima’s katazome calendars printed by Kuriyama Haruo in their collection, Collection Number: 2010,195.10. Calendar for July, 1975 (Gion Festival in Kyoto) was printed as a dye print design for the 1975 calendar and represents a beautiful and striking example of the folk art of Takeshi Nishijima.
	Nishijima’s calendars often came with brief descriptions. For July, 1975 he wrote, “July: The 31 days (of July) are divided by scenes from the Gion Festival in Kyoto.” An annual event with festivities that last all month, the Gion Matsuri, festival of Yasaka Shrine is a religious event considered to be the most famous and longest running festival in Japan which dates back to 869. The procession of floats begins on July 17 and takes place on the opposite side of Kamo River. On the 17th, the floats start from Shijo-Karasuma and the on the 25th, they start from Karasuma-Oike. The Gion festival was originally created to appease the gods during the outbreak of an epidemic, the plague. For this ceremony, a boy is chosen to be the divine messenger. The child was not allowed to set foot on the ground from the 13th until the 17th during which time he was paraded through the town. The whole procession is made up of 23 elaborately decorated floats called yama and ten huge & beautifully ornate floats called hoko known as Yamaboko or (Yamahoko). What makes the procession so remarkable is the size of the hoko, measuring up to twenty five meters in height and weighing up to twelve tons. The July 17th procession is made up of 23 combined yama and hoko floats and the July 24th second procession is smaller, but no less impressive, made up of 10 yama and hoko floats Calendar for July, 1975 (Gion Festival in Kyoto) was printed as a dye print design for the 1975 calendar and represents a beautiful and striking example of the folk art of Takeshi Nishijima.
Size:	14 X 11 1/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed upon hand-made mulberry (rice) paper and with full margins as published in Kyoto for Takeshi Nishijima in 1974-1975. A finely printed, full color impression and in excellent condition throughout. Calendar for July, 1975 (Gion Festival in Kyoto) represents a prime, original example of the famous Mingei art of Takeshi Nishijima.
Subject:	Takeshi Nishijima, Calendar for July, 1975 (Gion Festival in Kyoto) , original hand-stencilled dye print, Mingei, Japanese folk art, Kataezome (Katazome) Calendar, paper dyeing workshop, Kyoto artists, Kyoto scenes, Keisuke Serizawa (1895-1984).
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