梶田半古(はんこ)(1870~1917)が描いた女学生風俗に色濃く影響を受けた作品。
明治30年代の女学生に「海老茶式部」という異名がつけられたほど、当時の街中で海老茶色の袴姿がよく見られました。本作にあらわされた女学生は、その時代の典型的な姿を写したものです。
髪型を桃割れに結い、忘れな草の造花の簪(かんざし)を挿し、明石縮緬の単衣姿でバイオリンを奏でています。バイオリンもまた、ハイカラな新楽器として女学生の間で人気を呼びました。
Shushō (Autumn Evening) (1903)
color on silk; hanging scroll
154.4 x 70.8 cm
(First exhibited at the 15th Japan Painting Association and 10th Japan Art Institute Joint Competitive Exhibition)
This work is heavenly influenced by Kajita Hanko (1870-1917), who produced schoolgirl genre scenes.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, schoolgirls often wore reddish brown
hakama (a divided skirt worn over the kimono) in the streets. It was such a common sight that they even had a nickname, the “
ebicha shikibu” (garnet red
shikibu, a play on the name of Murasaki
Shikibu, “purple shikibu”). The image of the girl in this painting is typical of the time.
Her hair is arranged in the
momoware style, and she wears a decorative hairpin with an artificial forget-me-not flower. She is dressed in an unlined kimono of lightweight
Akashi silk crepe and she is playing the violin, a fashionably new instrument that was popular among schoolgirls.