{"id":166279,"date":"2024-08-08T10:33:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.momat.go.jp\/?post_type=magazine&#038;p=166279"},"modified":"2025-01-31T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T07:36:24","slug":"207","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.momat.go.jp\/en\/magazine\/207","title":{"rendered":"Komura Settai, Illustration for the Novel Edo Yakusha by Kunieda Kanji, 1932\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.momat.go.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/04e4a1887786892e5e78584751469e15.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161172\" width=\"953\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.momat.go.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/04e4a1887786892e5e78584751469e15.jpg 953w, https:\/\/www.momat.go.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/04e4a1887786892e5e78584751469e15-200x129.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.momat.go.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/04e4a1887786892e5e78584751469e15-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Komura Settai (1887\u20131940)<br><em>Illustration for the Novel Edo Yakusha by Kunieda Kanji<\/em><br>1932<br>Ink on paper (70 illustrations)<br>Color on paper (2 endpapers)<br>Album<br>Illustrations each 15.0 \u00d7 23.4 cm<br>Endpapers each 19.6 \u00d7 54.7 cm<br>Purchased 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Komura Settai produced a series of illustrations for Kunieda Kanji\u2019s novel<em> Edo Yakusha <\/em>[Actor of Edo], which was serialized in 70 installments in the evening editions of the <em>Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun<\/em> and <em>Osaka Mainichi Shimbun<\/em> from September 20 to December 28, 1932. The original drawings were rediscovered in 2022, and have since joined the MOMAT collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 70 original illustrations were preserved in an album (also described as an accordion book), with two illustrations per spread, a total of 36 on the obverse and 34 on the reverse. The title slip of the album features the inscription \u201cEdo Yakusha\u201d in Settai\u2019s handwriting. At the back of the album is another inscription by Settai, stamped with his personal seal: \u201c<em>Osaka Mainichi Shimbun<\/em> \/ <em>Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun<\/em> \/ Serialized novel <em>Edo Yakusha<\/em> \/ Written by Kunieda Kanji \/ Illustrations by Komura Settai.\u201d This indicates that the cherry blossom illustrations on the front and back endpapers, rendered in color, are also Settai\u2019s work. The blossoms likely reference springtime scenes at the Sumida River toward the end of the novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team of novelist Kunieda Kanji and illustrator Komura Settai is best known for <em>Osen<\/em>, serialized about a year after <em>Edo Yakusha<\/em> in the evening editions of the <em>Tokyo Asahi Shimbun<\/em> and <em>Osaka Asahi Shimbun<\/em>. <em>Osen<\/em> popularized what came to be called the \u201cSettai style,\u201d defined by clean, unwavering lines, sharp black-and-white contrasts, and bird\u2019s-eye views. However, examination of <em>Edo Yakusha<\/em>, particularly the original drawings, reveals the hallmark crispness of Settai\u2019s lines, and shows that the \u201cSettai style\u201d which enchanted so many was already fully realized at this stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kunieda himself highly praised Settai\u2019s illustrations for <em>Edo Yakusha<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201c<em>Edo Yakusha<\/em> remains one of my favorite works, and Settai\u2019s illustrations for it were truly excellent. While the illustrations for <em>Osen<\/em> in the <em>Asahi Shimbun<\/em> are ranked first by the public, as the author, I personally believe those for <em>Edo Yakusha<\/em> were superior.\u201d<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonetheless, <em>Edo Yakusha<\/em> is far less well-known than <em>Osen<\/em>. As Settai scholar Sanada Koji points out, the relative obscurity of <em>Edo Yakusha<\/em> can be attributed to its illustrations being published in ephemeral newspapers, unlike <em>Osen<\/em>, which benefited from enduring publications such as <em>Eiri zoushi<\/em> (Illustrated Book)<em> Osen<\/em> (Shin-Shosetsusha, 1934) that reproduced the complete series of illustrations.<sup>2<\/sup> The discovery of these original drawings promises to bring renewed attention to Settai\u2019s masterful work on <em>Edo Yakusha<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Notes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">1. Kunieda Kanji, \u201cSettai-san,\u201d <em>Sochikutei Essays<\/em>, Koa Shoin, 1943, p. 151.&nbsp;<br>2. Sanada Koji, \u201cCommentary: Komura Settai and Kunieda Kanji\u2019s <em>Edo<\/em> <em>Yakusha<\/em>,\u201d<em> Edo Yakusha: Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun Evening Edition Serialized Version<\/em>, Genki Shobo, 2023, p. 231.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>(<em>Gendai no me, Newsletter of The National Museum of Modern Art<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;Tokyo<\/em>&nbsp;No.639)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":161175,"template":"","magazine_category":[274],"series":[276,280,275],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Komura Settai, Illustration for the Novel Edo Yakusha by Kunieda Kanji, 1932\u00a0 \uff08\u898b\u308b\u805e\u304f\u8aad\u3080\uff09- \u6771\u4eac\u56fd\u7acb\u8fd1\u4ee3\u7f8e\u8853\u9928<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.momat.go.jp\/en\/magazine\/207\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Komura Settai, Illustration for the Novel Edo Yakusha by Kunieda Kanji, 1932\u00a0 \uff08\u898b\u308b\u805e\u304f\u8aad\u3080\uff09- \u6771\u4eac\u56fd\u7acb\u8fd1\u4ee3\u7f8e\u8853\u9928\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Komura Settai produced a series of illustrations for Kunieda Kanji\u2019s novel Edo Yakusha [Actor of Edo], which was serialized in 70 installments in the evening editions of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun and Osaka Mainichi Shimbun from September 20 to December 28, 1932. 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