Kinoshita Rozan (?-?) "Tachi-bina" Late Edo period-Meiji era

Art work details

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Setting weight
This piece weighs 0.9 kg and will be shipped in 80 size.

Material
Japanese pigments on silk

Size
Overall: vertical 180 × width 50.2 cm＊width does not include roller ends.
(the work: vertical 101.4 × width 39.8cm)

Condition
・There are burns, stains, wrinkles, floats on the Japanese paper on the back of the cover.
・There are some burns, stains, wrinkles on the image.
・There is a slight peeling of white pigment.
・There are some burns, wrinkles, warp in mounting.

Remarks
Roller ends is lacquerware.
・Usami Naohachi appraised the piece and signed the box.

Materials for mounting
・All of them are made of silk.

Other
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*There may be a slight difference in color between the photo and the actual product.

Biography
Kinoshita Rozan (?-?) 
・The bio of the author is unknown.

A word from the store
This is a painting of Hina dolls displayed during the Japanese Peach Festival on March 3.
Unlike modern Hina dolls, the model in the painting is an early Hina doll called Tachibina.
The margins of the painting have some foxing, stains, wrinkles, etc. due to its age.
The white paint on the face also has some peeling.
However, the other colors retain the good coloring of the old pigments.
The mounting is made of gorgeous, high-quality silk, as befits a festive occasion.
From the inside, there are camellia, phoenix, and lattice patterns.
It is likely that Usami Naohachi, the mounting artist who appraised this work, did the work.
Therefore, even decades after it was mounted, the rest of the surface remains in good condition with only some fraying of the threads.

No details of the artist, Kinoshita Rozan, were found in the literature.
From the name, it seems that he was related to the Osaka painter Kinoshita Roshu(1807-1879).

Main Meaning
"Tachi-bina (Standing dolls)"
A pair of male and female paper dolls. The original dolls were made of white paper called katashiro(形代) during the Heian period (794-1185) for purification. In Japan, they are usually displayed for about a month between February 3 and March 3, the Peach Festival. It expresses the wish of parents that their newborn child will grow up to be a healthy and gentle woman. Hina dolls are thought of as a substitute for the child's dolls, and the wish is that the child will not have any disasters and that the child will be happy. From the Edo period (1603-1867) to the Meiji period (1868-1912), these paper dolls were displayed on the Hina-dan, but they gradually disappeared after the introduction of Dairi-bina(内裏雛), a pair of male and female dolls made to resemble the emperor and empress.