{"product_id":"zeshin-the-catherine-and-thomas-edson-collection","title":"Zeshin: The Catherine and Thomas Edson Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eShibata Zeshin (1807-189) was one of the most unusual Japanese artists of the nineteenth century. Not only did he achieve almost equal fame as a painter of silk or paper scrolls and as a lacquerer of boxes and trays, something no one had done before, he even invented a type of \"lac-quer painting\" (urushi-e)—well represented in the Edson Collection (nos. 44-53) —that enabled him to combine both of those ancient arts. He devised a host of other new lacquer techniques and deployed them on a wide array of objects to create a visual world so distinctive that there is normally no need to search for his tiny signature, often scratched with a rat's tooth in the dark sur-face. He is unusual, too, not just for his artistic singularity but also for the skewed chronological spread of his output. Although we know a good deal about the techniques he invented during the 1840s and we have a few records of commissions carried out in the same decade, apparently only a handful of his surviving works predate 1868, the last year of the Edo period (1615-1868) and the first of the Meiji era (1868-1912). His reputation rests, therefore, on lacquerware, paintings, and lacquer paintings executed during the last quarter century of his life, when Japan experienced some of the most profound and far-reaching changes in her long history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joe Earle, Sebastian Izzard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48938444456186,"sku":"NEM3\/26\/05272026","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/3387\/5450\/files\/IMG_1453_0368a354-494e-4da2-973f-f80341f04461.jpg?v=1780011322","url":"https:\/\/flippedpages.com\/products\/zeshin-the-catherine-and-thomas-edson-collection","provider":"Flipped Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}