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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00000317/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- 久我 十二ヶ月
- Added title page title:
- Koga jūnikagetsu (no) zu
- Added title page title:
- Koga jūni-ka-getsu (no) zu
- Translated Title:
- Seasons as shown in a Chinese village
Pictures of Rice Cultivation
Rice cultivation in four seasons
- Creator:
- Koga ( Artist )
久我 ( Artist )
- Place of Publication:
- [s.l.]
- Publisher:
- [S.n.]
- Publication Date:
- [n.d.]
- Language:
- Japanese
- Physical Description:
- 6 folded sheets
Notes
- Abstract:
- Pictures of Rice Cultivation, in Chinese style.
The scenes are showing the essential stages of rice growing: submerging the rice seeds (tanemomi o hitasu種籾浸す), tilling the rice paddy, transplanting the rice seedlings, irrigation, weeding then finally harvesting and threshing the rice to separate grain from chaff.
In Confucian thought, the farming or cultivation of rice is a metaphor for the cultivation of the mind and spirit, but those paintings also pointed out the nobility of the work of rice growers, whose toil provided sustenance for all levels of society. In the social structure of the Edo period (1615-1868), there were four classes: samurai, farmers, artisans and merchants. Farm work was to be venerated as an ideal worthy of emulation. Depictions of rice cultivation are not uncommon in Japanese art.
- General Note:
- Six water colour paintings by a Japanese artist from the Koga family (?).
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS, University of London
- Holding Location:
- |Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
 This item is licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial License. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms.- Resource Identifier:
- MS 60724 ( SOAS Manuscript Number )
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