Saturday, November 23, 2019

Bon-Odori / 盆踊り. Taisho era (1912–1926), Shibata Ban'yo (1885 - 1942)




Kakejiku(掛け軸) (vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting dancers at the Obon(お盆) midsummer festival in the precincts of a Shinto shrine, surrounded by giant sugi (cryptomeria) trees and lit by lanterns inscribed Odori (Dance) and Wakanaka (Young Men's Group)