メナード美術館へ
1月4日、女房と小牧市にあるメナード美術館に行ってきました。目当ての作品は葛飾応為の「夜桜美人図」です（応為は葛飾北斎の娘）。この絵はテレビ番組「美の巨人」でもとりあげられ、一度本物を見たいと思っていた絵です。
暗い夜空に星が点々と輝き、樹木のシルエットの下で、妙齢の美人が恋文？をしたためている絵です。背の高い灯篭と背の低い灯篭の間に立ち、二つの灯篭からの灯りが美人の顔や手元や着物の裾を照らしています。背景の桜も照らされて幻想的な絵画に仕上がっています。
北斎は「美人画では娘にかなわない」と言っていたそうです。
On January 4, I went to the Menard Art Museum in Komaki City with my wife to see “Yozakura Bijin Zu” (A beauty under a night cherry tree) painted by Ohoi Katsushika, a daughter of an 18th century genius painter. We had watched an NHK TV program about it weeks before.
It is a picture of a beautiful woman writing a love letter with an ink brush beside a cherry tree under a starlit sky. She stands between a tall and low stone lanterns. The candle light from the tall one illuminates her face, hand, and the letter. The pale light from the other illuminates the skirt of her kimono. The clusters of cherry blossoms behind her back shine like pearls. The stars high above the dark trees shimmer serenely. The whole picture gives fantastic impression.
Hokisai is said to have commented that he was no match for her at painting beautiful women.
暗い夜空に星が点々と輝き、樹木のシルエットの下で、妙齢の美人が恋文？をしたためている絵です。背の高い灯篭と背の低い灯篭の間に立ち、二つの灯篭からの灯りが美人の顔や手元や着物の裾を照らしています。背景の桜も照らされて幻想的な絵画に仕上がっています。
北斎は「美人画では娘にかなわない」と言っていたそうです。
VISIT TO MENARD ART MUSEUM
It is a picture of a beautiful woman writing a love letter with an ink brush beside a cherry tree under a starlit sky. She stands between a tall and low stone lanterns. The candle light from the tall one illuminates her face, hand, and the letter. The pale light from the other illuminates the skirt of her kimono. The clusters of cherry blossoms behind her back shine like pearls. The stars high above the dark trees shimmer serenely. The whole picture gives fantastic impression.
Hokisai is said to have commented that he was no match for her at painting beautiful women.
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