Kimono with Iris Pattern - Okada Saburosuke Art Print

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About the Artwork

Kimono with Iris Pattern turns its back on you, and Okada Saburōsuke makes that refusal the whole seduction. Painted in 1927, the second year of Shōwa, this Japanese oil painting holds a young woman in a pool of mustard ochre light. Her blue-black chignon coils like a sleeping snake. Stray hairs escape at the nape.

The silk has slipped. One pale shoulder blade rises from the cobalt blue robe, its skin warmed by a peach flush near the ear. White iris blossoms climb the cloth on ochre and sage stems, flowers of early summer that share a name with the shōbu leaves families float in May baths for Tango no Sekku. Across her hips runs a persimmon orange band freckled with shibori tie-dye. Each dot was a knot someone once tied by hand.

Okada learned his soft academic realism under Raphaël Collin in Paris. Back in Tokyo he folded it into yōga beside Kuroda Seiki and the White Horse Society. Two schools meeting on one spine as we are left wondering if she will ever turn to face us. 

Origin Story

Okada Saburōsuke (1869–1939) was the Japanese Yōga painter who taught oil paint to speak softly. Born in Saga to a family of Nabeshima clan retainers, he studied Western-style painting under Soyama Sachihiko before Kuroda Seiki and Kume Keiichirō, fresh from France, opened his eyes to plein-air light and the Barbizon school. A founding member of the Hakuba-kai, he sailed to Paris to train with Raphaël Collin, returning in 1902 as professor at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, precursor of the Tokyo University of the Arts.

His women glow with warm, luminous skin: Image of a Woman (Purple tone) took first prize in 1907, followed by Black Obi and Woman Before Bathing. Co-founder of the Hongō Painting Institute with Fujishima Takeji and recipient of the Order of Culture, Okada made portraiture a meeting place of Paris and Japan.

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