Collection
Bathing
SHINKAI, Taketaro1907
Information
- Title
- Bathing
- Artist
- SHINKAI, Taketaro View artist Information
- Year
- 1907
- Collection
- Transferred from ME
- Medium
- plaster
- Size(cm)
- 189.0×46.0×39.0
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National Important Cultural Properties
- Collection ID no.
- SI0001
Commentary
Shinkai Taketaro studied sculpture in Germany and aimed to merge Western techniques and Eastern subjects. This is a pioneering nude sculpture in Japan that Shinkai sent to the first Bunten (Ministry of Education Fine Arts Exhibition). Using a Japanese model in a reserved pose with a Tempyo-style chignon and a thin cloth in her hand, the piece shows a human body idealized in a European fashion. It exemplifies marriage of Japanese and Western art in a neat, graceful figure.
(The plaster designated an Important Cultural Property on June 27, 2000)