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RIMPA 400th Anniversary Project

 

The project of making

a Facsimile and coming home of

“The folding screens of Wind God and Thunder God

 

byOgata Korin

(Owned by Tokyo National museum) 

Open display: Autumn in 2015

 

 

      

                    

A Treasure of Kyoto will be back to the original figure

by collotype facsimile and to its home town, Kyoto

 

Project Prospectus

Tawaraya Sotatsu, Honami Koetsu,and Ogata Korin. All the artists represents Edo period were born in Kyoto, and grew up in Kyoto.It’s no exaggeration to say that most of RIMPA works, which have been handed over to the present, were drawn here in Kyoto.

 

One of the representative works of Ogata Korin, “The folding screens of Wind God and Thunder God” (Important cultural asset, owned by Tokyo National Museum) was also drawn in Kyoto. “The Wind God and Thunder God” by Korin and “The folding screens of Flowering plants of summer and autumn” by Sakai Hoitsu (Important cultural asset, owned by Tokyo National Museum) have been separated to be two different works. But those two used to be the front and back of one screen. This unique project is to reproduce the original style of the pair of screens, pictures on both sides, with a completed facsimile of “the Flowering plants of summer and autumn” and by newly creating facsimile of “The Wind God and Thunder God”, and make its home visit come true.

 

Kyoto has been deeply inherited the traditions and techniques of Japanese art. Through this project, we would like more Kyoto citizens and people to know Kyoto’s incomparable characteristic and to understand the significance of handing over valuable cultural assets to following generations.

 

When it’s completed, the screens will be donated to Kyoto prefecture. After the donation, the screens will be put on view at public facilities such as “The museum of Kyoto” and “Kyoto prefectural Library and archives” and planned to be used for workshops for children and lending to educational facilities in Kyoto. 

Important Cultural Property

“The folding screens of Wind God and Thunder God” 

“The folding screens of Flowering plants of summer and autumn”

 By Ogata Korin and Sakai Hoitsu

164.5×181cm Edo period 18-19 century, owned by Tokyo National Museum

Korin copied Sotatsu’s “Wind God and Thunder God”, and Hoitsu drew his own representative work at the back of the screens. This monumental pair of both faced screens, which represents the art descent of Rinpa symbolically, has been separated into two pairs in recent years to protect them from damages. At the back of the “Thunder god screen”, summer grass regained its vitality because of a shower, and a rapidly swollen river were painted, and the back of the “ Wind god screen”, autumn grass fanned by the wind and whirled up ivy its leaves turning red were painted. (From Tokyo National Museum webpage)  

Host Organization

 (Provisional Name)Executive committee of reproduction and coming home of the “Wind God and Thunder God” by Oagata Korin 

Representative Supporter

Tadashi Kobayashi

Emeritus Professor of Gakushuin University
Director of Okada Museum

Supporters

Yoshitaka Ariga                 

Masaaki Itakura

Yoshio Sakakibara

Doshin Sato

Yasuhiro Sato

Midori Sano  

Arata Shimao 

Mazumi Simizu

Yutaro Shimode

Masayuki Sekiguchi

Seishi Namiki 

Yoshiyuki Hosomi

Seihan Mori

Rieko Morita

Kenkichi Yoshizawa

Tamehito Reizei

 

 

 

Supporters

Emeritus Professor of Tohoku University

Professor of Tokyo University Graduate School

Professor emeritus of Kyoto City University of Arts

Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts

Professor of Tokyo University Graduate School

Professor of Gakushuin University

Professor of Gakushuin University

Director of Mitsui Memorial Museum

Makie nurses / Professor of Kyoto Sangyo University

Director of Toyama Memorial Museum

Professor, Graduate School of Kyoto Institute of technology

Director of Hosomi Museum

Kansyu of Kiyomizu Temple

Japanese-style Painter

Professor of Kyoto Sangyo University

President of Reizei Family Shigure-tei Library

 

 

 

Tokyo National Museum

 

 

Examples of use after donated

◎Workshops for children at  “The museum of Kyoto”  “Kyoto prefectural Library and archives”

→ Let’s trace the facsimile looking at it closely

◎Lending it to elementary and Junior high schools in Kyoto

→Let’s learn Kyoto’s culture

◎Use it to welcome important guests visits Kyoto.

◎Lending it to overseas.

 

 

 

< Contact >

Executive committee of reproduction and coming home of the “Wind God and Thunder God” by Oagata Korin

 

E-mail : info_rimpa@benrido.co.jp

 

Adress : Sinmachi-Takuyamachi, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0093, Japan

 

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