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品名（中）	奇怪婚姻的故事
品名（英）	Tale of a Strange Marriage (Konkai Zoshi)
入馆年号	1957年，57.156.7
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Ukita Ikkei【1795 至 1859】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1848 - 公元 1859
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	11 3/4 英寸 x 25 ft. 6 英寸 (29.8 x 777.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	动物代替人类的讽刺画在日本艺术中有着悠久的历史。这类绘画的一种特殊类型涉及狐狸，人们认为狐狸会在月夜将自己变成人类这幅有点诡异的秋月下狐狸婚礼的描绘表达了艺术家对德川幕府的尖锐批评，以及德川幕僚试图通过将一位皇室公主嫁给幕府来巩固其日渐衰落的权威。艺术家Ukita Ikkei是反对派政界的重要成员，也是山形画复兴的主要人物，山形画是一种独特的日本宫廷绘画风格。因此，他熟悉保存在京都的yamato-e杰作，熟练地诠释了这一日本传统成语。这五个场景中的每一个都直接取自受人尊敬的镰仓时期卷轴《加须贺神社的奇迹》（1309）。Ikkei用看似恶魔的狐狸取代了原作中姿势优雅的朝臣，在场景中充满了一种可怕的不自然感，色彩丰富，营造出一种纯粹的亵渎<1858年，在一次反德川势力的围捕中，伊克吉被捕。一年后，他从监狱获释后不久就去世了，这项令人惊叹的工作没有完成。
介绍（英）	Satirical paintings with animals standing in for humans have a long history in Japanese art. A special genre of such paintings involves foxes, which are believed to transform themselves into humans on moonlit nights. This somewhat eerie depiction of a fox wedding under an autumn moon expresses the artist’s biting criticism of the Tokugawa shogunate and its attempt to shore up its waning authority by marrying an imperial princess to the shogun. The artist, Ukita Ikkei, was an important member of opposition political circles and a major figure in the revival of yamato-e, a distinctively Japanese style of courtly painting. As such, he was familiar with yamato-e masterpieces preserved in Kyoto, skillfully interpreting this traditional Japanese idiom. Each of the five scenes is taken directly from a venerated Kamakura-period scroll, The Miracles of the Kasuga Shrine (1309). Replacing the elegantly posed courtiers of the original with demonic-seeming foxes, Ikkei suffuses the scenes with a lurid unnaturalness heightened by the richly painted colors, creating a vision of pure sacrilege. Ikkei was arrested in a roundup of anti-Tokugawa forces in 1858. He died shortly after being released from prison one year later, leaving this stunning work unfinished.