Reiko

Minamoto no Yoshitsune Journeying to Kisegawa

Reiko's original painting on silk, "Minamoto no Yoshitsune Journeying to Kisegawa" was created by the japanese artist around 1935. It depicts a famous scene from the Azuma Kagami, a medieval set of volumes which roughly covers the history of the years from 1180 to 1266. It is painted on early twentieth century Japanese silk and with full margins and is signed by the artist in the lower left corner with both her name and her artistic seal. "Minamoto no Yoshitsune Journeying to Kisegawa" is a fine, original example of Japanese painting from the earl decades of the twentieth century.

Minamoto no Yoshitsune Journeying to Kisegawa

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Title:	Minamoto no Yoshitsune Journeying to Kisegawa
Artist:	Reiko (Japanese, 20th c.)
Date:	c. 1935
Medium:	Original Japanese Painting on Silk
Note:	Reiko: One of the more interesting aspects of this original painting which depicts Minamoto no Yoshitsune journeying to Kisegawa is that the artist, Reiko, was a woman. Until the post-war era, the arts in Japan were almost completely male dominated. To find a woman painting in this era is quite remarkable.
	Oriental painting on silk reaches far back through the centuries. Like so many forms of art, the Japanese adopted this method from the Chinese, but turned it into something distinctly unique. From the eighteenth century onwards, most Japanese designers for the art of the woodcut were fine painters in their own right and thus the distinctions among the pictorial arts in Japan where much less severe than in the West.
	This original painting by Reiko, Minamoto no Yoshitsune Journeying to Kisegawa, depicts a famous scene from the Azuma Kagami, a medieval set of volumes which roughly covers the history of the years from 1180 to 1266. One of Japan’s most famous samurai, Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159-1189) was a brilliant general whose victories for his family, and particularly his brother, Yoritomo, resulted in the demise of the Taira clan and his brother gaining the title of Shogun.
	Minamoto Yoshitsune was a son of Minamoto Yoshitomo (1123-1160), who was assassinated by the Taira. Yoshitsune and his younger brother, Yoritomo, were separated during early infancy, around 1160. About twenty years later Yoritomi raised an army to combat the Taira. Yoshitsune journeyed to meet his brother at Kisegawa and was soon his leading general. Yet, despite many successful battles, a rift was beginning to form between the brothers by 1185. Yoritomo, it is thought, paid to much heed to the slanders and intrigues created by his advisors at court. In 1189 Yoritomo ordered his brother’s death. Reduced to flee with only a handful of loyal retainers, Yoshitsune was eventually trapped in the far north.
Size:	12 X 16 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Buy Now	Price: $395.00 US
Condition:	Painted on early twentieth century Japanese silk and with full margins. Containing some stretcher marks along the outer edges and stains exist, else in very good condition throughout. Signed by the artist, Reiko, in the lower left corner with both her name and her artistic seal. "Minamoto no Yoshitsune Journeying to Kisegawa" is a fine, original example of Japanese painting from the earl decades of the twentieth century.
Subject:	Reiko, Minamoto no Yoshitsune Journeying to Kisegawa, original Japanese painting on silk, Azuma Kagami, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, One of Japan’s most famous samurai Yoritomo, Shogun, the Taira clan.
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