Shoen Uemura (Japan, 1875-1949)

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JAPAN
Shoen Uemura
(1875 1949)
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Woman Waiting for the Moon to Rise 1944
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Portrait of a Beauty 1937
Wind
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Autumn
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Reading 1940
Spring of Kuruwa 1936
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Komachi Washing the Fascicle, 1928 or 1937
Firefly
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Early Autumn, 2001
Komachi Washing the Fascicle, 1928 or 1937
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Early fall 1943
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Beauty in Spring
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Evening
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Beauty and plum
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Firefly 1949
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Late Autumn, 1943 - Osaka City Museum of fine Arts
Snow - The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
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Flame 1918 Tokyo National Museum
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Beautiful Woman Reading a Book (1941) Tokyo Fuji
Art Museum
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Fragrance of Spring (Japanese garb), 1940
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1942
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Spring evening 1942
Whispering beauties
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Beautiful woman under the flowers, 1897
Playing flute at a joyful night
Mild spring day
Title, Date and Location unknown
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Spring breeze, 1940 Kuwayama Museum of Art, Nagoya
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Merry Season of Cherry Blossoms, 1907-12
Flower 1910
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New firefly Yamatane Museum of Art
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Waiting for the Moon Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
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Madame Kusunoki Masahige 1944
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Yamatane museum
Maiko
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Spring and Autumn 1930
1926
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Picture of Makeup 1913
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Long night
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Preparing for dance 1914 - The National Museum
of Modern Art, Kyoto
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Preparing for dance 1914 Details
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Young leaves
Snowstorm
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Evening Coolness
Making a Wish for a Long Life on
Chrysanthemums Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
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Pine Village -love child Hiroshima Museum of Art
Mother and child 1934 The National Museum of
Modern Art, Tokyo
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Chinese beauty
Gosho doll
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Geisha Dressing with Attendant 1930
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Evening 1941
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Autumn attire
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Autumn garb 1936
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Autumn leaves
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Yang Guifei Shohaku Art Museum
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Yuanyang topknot 1935
Snow
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Firefly 1944 The National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo
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The Flowers of Life Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Bride 1935
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Flower Basket 1915
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Large flakes of snow 1944
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Snow, 1940
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Sound of the Tabor, 1940
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Sound of Tsuzumi (Tabor or Drum), 1940
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Lady Sei Shonagon Rolling up a Reed Blind(1895)
Beauty with Tabor (Drum)
Japanese woman looking in a mirror
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Catching Fireflies, 1932
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Cherry Blossom Viewing
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Figure of beauty in Kyoto
Firefly
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Daughter Miyuki 1914
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Garden of Snow (1948)
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Sakura
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Firefly Yamatane Museum of Art
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A Fine Day 1941 Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Folding Paper Cranes, 1940 Orizuru Yamatane
Museum of Art
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Shower in late autumn
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Spring day
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Spring brise
Spring attire 1936 Yamatane Museum of Art
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Kate
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The Loyal Ronin Blindfold Game
Spring and Autumn
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Snowstorm
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Paint brush 1942 Yamatane Museum of Art
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The Sound of Insects Brings Lady to Peek Outside
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Noriyuki late dance figure
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Hana 1935
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Momijigari
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Spring 1935
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Kita-no-Mandokoro, wife of Regency
Figure Noriyuki beauty 1937
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Fairy Lady, Chu Lian Xiang,  c. 1924
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Portrait of a Tang Beauty 1924
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 Looking up at the Rainbow, 1932 pair of
two-fold screens    each 182.0 x 181.0 The
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
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  Ghost with Sword 1922-26
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Man dance 1938
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Shizuka Gozen, shirabyoshi dancer
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Jo-no-Mai, (Noh Dance Prelude) The University Art
Museum - Tokyo
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Text pictures Internet Copyright All the
images belong to their authors Presentation
Sanda Foisoreanu
2016
Sound James Galway - Hamabe no Uta
(Song of the Seashore) by Tamezo Narita
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Uemura Shoen (1875 1949) was the pseudonym of an
important female artist in Meiji, Taisho and
early Showa period Japanese painting. Her real
name was Uemura Tsune. Shoen was known primarily
for her bijinga paintings of beautiful women in
the nihonga style, although she also produced
numerous works on historical themes and
traditional subjects
Shoen was born in Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, as the
second daughter of a tea merchant. She was born
two months after the death of her father and thus
grew up together with her mother and aunts in an
all female household. Her mothers tea shop
attracted a refined, cultured clientele for the
art of Japanese tea ceremony. As a child, Shoen
drew pictures and exhibited considerable skill at
drawing human figures. She became obsessed with
the ukiyo-e works of Hokusai. Her mother
supported her decision to pursue an artistic
career. In Japan female artist Shoen Uemura is a
highly respected person and a kind of household
name. People owe her respect for her courage to
fight for the rights of women in Japan and for
her achievements as a great artist. In 1941
Uemura Shoen became a member of the Imperial Art
Academy. And in 1948 she became the first woman
to receive the Order of Cultural Merit. Like
several others of her contemporary Japanese
fellow artists, she would most probably have made
an International career if the time-schedule of
her life had been a different one. Without access
to the large North American market, no Japanese
artist can make an International career.