Barry Till of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria discusses some of the art left behind by Japan’s last Shoguns.Barry Till of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria discusses some of the art left behind by Japan’s last Shoguns. …
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Introduction
Introduction
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Introduction
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Gold Leaf Screens
Gold Leaf Screens
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Gold Leaf Screens
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Peloquin
Peloquin
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Peloquin
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Introduction
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founder of the Edo Shogunate was a yazal
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Tokugawa he was able to unify the
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country in 1603 and by 16 15 he was
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appointed as Shogun
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he is very clever in establishing a very
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strong centralized government
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he gave feats to about 450 die now or
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feudal lords and he required them to
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come to the capital every other year and
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spend a year in residence in Edo which
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was its Tokyo of today and therefore
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they didn’t have time to plot coup
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d’etats it costs a lot of money to go
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back and forth to their fief and then
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come back to the capital they were
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forced to keep very elaborate to
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residences and when they traveled they
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were travelling groups sometimes as high
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as three and four thousand so we had to
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pay for all these people going to and
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from the capital in hotels restaurants
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and tea houses he also insisted that
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they leave their wives and families in
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the capital of aro virtually as hostages
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so therefore there’s no any sort of wish
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to rebel against the Edo Shogunate
Gold Leaf Screens
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in the homes of the Shogun’s and they
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had feudal lords they often had
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beautiful wall murals along the walls as
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well as folding screens which would
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partition off the various rooms often
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the screens were very beautifully done
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with gold leaf and this helped when the
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Sun would shine and it would help to
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illuminate the rooms some of these gold
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leaf screens are quite spectacular we
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have several examples in the collection
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here and we the Tosa school which was
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patronized by the imperial family in
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kyoto
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or the Cannell school which was
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patronized by the Shogun and his various
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feudal lords we actually have one screen
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which comes from Nijo castle Nijo castle
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was used by the Shogun when he went to
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visit the emperor in kyoto this
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particular screen was done by a very
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famous artist named san roque o’connell
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eventually the screen was sold in the
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early 20th century to the American
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architect Frank Lloyd Wright and
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eventually found its way to our gallery
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in the 1990s it is spectacular and has
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been recently repaired by the Cultural
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Institute in Tokyo
Peloquin
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during the edo period there’s a
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prohibition on using vehicles with
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wheels
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you couldn’t have horse cars you could
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have occasionally have ox carts but the
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main modes of transportation were either
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by foot horseback or by the sedan chair
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or palanquin we have a very nice
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Peloquin here which would have been used
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by the Shogun family it has the Shogun
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crest the Tokugawa crest on it it
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probably would have been used by a
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princess when she was getting married
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because there are two crests on it now
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this would probably be carried by
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anywhere from four to six men and they
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would carry the person inside and
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there’s quite comfortable and the
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latches at the front and the science do
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close so you can have privacy it’s a
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very beautifully made it’s of wood and
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it is covered with lacquer
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you
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