The female figure seems to be one of Kaname's favourite subjects, here ranging from simple kimono beauties to various famous characters from kabuki theatre.
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Framed by red maples, this lady wears a striking kimono. The original title, Gion-no-komachi implies that she is a beauty from Gion, the traditional geisha area of Kyoto.
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A demure beauty poses below a weeping cherry in full flower.
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With a huge full moon as backdrop, Kaguyahime ("Princess of the shining night") has a pensive look. The story of which she is heroine, the "Bamboo cutter's tale", dates back a thousand years, to the great cultural flowering that was the Heian period. In the story, she was found as a tiny baby inside a bamboo trunk.
As we see, a beauty of that time wore her eyebrows high, and her hair exceedingly long. She also spared no expense on her kimono.
Good articles at Wikipedia:
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter -
Heian period
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The character Sanbasô has a long history - stretching back over a thousand years of Noh drama. Originally a character in the drama Okina, the name (lit. "3rd person") is said to come from the fact that this character was the third to dance.
Kaname here portrays the character as later adopted in kabuki, in a classic formal pose.
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According to the legend, there was once a girl called Kiyohime who, tormented by unrequited love for the priest Anchin of the temple of Dôjôji, eventually turned into a snake, and roasted the object of her desire inside the temple bell. Kaname here portrays the dancing girl character of the much later kabuki play, who entertains the priests (and the audience) and at the climax climbs onto the bell, and reveals herself as the spirit of Kiyohime. We are reminded of the darker side of her character by the serpentine coils behind her.
Synopsis of the kabuki version - for more sites, try Google, and search for "Musume Dojoji".
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The tragic kabuki figure Takiyasha-hime is based on a historical character, Satsuki-hime, daughter of Masakado, a member of the Taira (Heike) clan on the losing side of the great power struggle with the Minamoto clan in the 12th century (Heian period).
According to the story, determined to avenge the death of her father, she went to the shrine of Kibune to obtain magic powers, and changed her name to Takiyasha-hime. We might translate this roughly as "The Witch of the Waterfall," though the -hime suffix normally refers to a "princess" or other lady figure. She tries to start a rebellion within the court, but eventually her powers are overcome, and she meets the same fate as her father.
Here we see the tragic stage of the kabuki performance - she still bears the Heike flag (red with black stripes), but her hair, long in the Heian style, is dishevelled, and her pose is one of despair. The shadowy scaly tail in the background is a reminder of the magic powers that are now failing her.
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A story from kabuki of unrequited love: this character is a heron who has been transformed into a human, and has fallen madly in love, only to be spurned. She dances in three stages, as an unblemished maiden, as a mature beauty, and most poignantly as she returns to being a heron - the scene shown here.
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Ozuma Kaname
Signed Kaname with full-name seal
The painter Ozuma Kaname was born in 1939, in Niigata. He studied traditional Japanese art, and his pictures are generally based on traditional themes.
Ozuma is his family name: he signs paintings with the single character of his given name only.
