For #postboxsaturday comes 4 views of Japan pillar style at (one of several) museums for famed artist (painter, print maker, poet, writer, bookbinder and illustrator) Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934).
In the gift shop or a wide assortment of postcards and postal stamps design from the artists work. What kind of dream is this right?!
This dapper gent is noted for his modern approaches and expanding traditional techniques and representing – especially women & cats – through the “rather enlightened romantic“ Taisho era – which was sandwiched between the massive industrialization of Meiji era and the militarization build-up of early Showa era.
This particular museum is his thatched-roof birthplace house (a farming / saké making family) and re-constructed atelier (he designed and built somewhere near Tokyo iirc but fell into disrepair and his son redrew the plans and rebuilt) in Setouchi (formerly Oku before amalgamation), Okayama prefecture.
Importantly, not to be confused with other museums in Gunma, Chiba or the art downtown Okayama near Korakuen garden.
This one is: Takehisa Yumeji’s Childhood Home and museum 夢二郷土美術館 夢二生家記念館・少年山荘
〒701-4214 岡山県瀬戸内市邑久町本庄Okucho Honjo, Setouchi, Okayama 701-4214
Memo: As it goes, i have hundreds of snapshots of postboxes, post offices, and “postal still life” (meaning scenes of scattered pens, papers, postcards, stationery, stamps – all spread over a table while in a session) and i use these for Postcards from Gravelly Beach podcast “episode art” and made a book from many of the artifacts.
Of late, some Instagram/Twitter folks have a #postboxsaturday campaign/project rolling so i’ve used this as encouragement to start trickling out my stash. Slowly and intermittently (because i have too many projects on the go!) with minor annotations.
