Six-Fold Screen
ca. 1940 (made)
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Serizawa Keisuke (1895-1984) was a leading member of the Japan's Mingei ('Folk Craft') movement. He was much influenced by the style and colour of the crafts of Okinawa (the former kingdom of Ryukyu), a group of islands to the south of Japan. Serizawa was especially attracted to the Okinawan textile art of bingata, a distinctive and very colourful form of stencilled resist-dyeing, which he first encountered at a regional products promotion exhibition in 1928. This screen, executed in the bingata technique, shows a map is of the main island of Okinawa, and the vignettes around it depict different aspects of Okinawan life and crafts.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stencilled resist-dyed silk, mounted on a wooden framework, backed with handmade paper |
| Brief description | Six-fold screen, stencilled and resist-dyed silk on a wooden frame showing a map of Okinawa, by Serizawa Keisuke (1895-1984), Japan, ca.1940. |
| Physical description | Six panel screen of stencilled resist-dyed silk on a wooden framework backed by handmade paper. The four middle panels show a map of Okinawa resisted against a clear blue ground. On the map are further stencilled polychrome designs and Japanese characters. On the two outside panels are round resisted vignettes depicting Okinawan scenes of farming, weaving and pottery-making as well as finished pots, bolts of bingata cloth and a group of three dancers wearing bingata kimono. Each panel is surrounded with a wooden border painted in light brown, and the screen is backed with handmade paper. |
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| Object history | Serizawa presented this screen to Sir John Pilcher (1912-1990) when Pilcher was serving as British Ambassador to Japan (1967-1972). The screen, and two other works given by Serizawa, were purchased from Pilcher by the V&A in 1985. |
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| Summary | Serizawa Keisuke (1895-1984) was a leading member of the Japan's Mingei ('Folk Craft') movement. He was much influenced by the style and colour of the crafts of Okinawa (the former kingdom of Ryukyu), a group of islands to the south of Japan. Serizawa was especially attracted to the Okinawan textile art of bingata, a distinctive and very colourful form of stencilled resist-dyeing, which he first encountered at a regional products promotion exhibition in 1928. This screen, executed in the bingata technique, shows a map is of the main island of Okinawa, and the vignettes around it depict different aspects of Okinawan life and crafts. |
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| Accession number | FE.21-1985 |
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| Record created | February 12, 2000 |
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