为奥本节点亮灯笼 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	为奥本节点亮灯笼
品名（英）	Lighting a Hanging Lantern for the Obon Festival
入馆年号	1936年，JP2743
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Shibata Zeshin 柴田是真【1807 至 1891】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1870 - 公元 1880
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	9 1/8 x 6 3/8 英寸 (23.2 x 16.2 厘米)
介绍（中）	Obon，灵魂节，是一种佛教庆祝活动，在整个日本夏末举行，为期三天，通常伴随着被称为Bon odori的节日公共舞蹈。据信，祖先的灵魂在这段时间回归，看台上的小Obon灯笼（Obon chōchin盆提灯) 点燃以暂时欢迎已故祖先的灵魂回来，同时在家庭祭坛上供奉。家庭成员还会在家门口挂灯笼，以帮助引导祖先的灵魂回到他们死后居住的地方。在奥本节结束时，灯笼被释放到最近的水体中，这样灵魂就可以回到另一个世界。在这幅版画中，这位女士点亮双簧管灯笼（双簧管doroお盆燈籠); 一只小狗站在她旁边。有时，人们会在祖先的坟墓里悬挂双簧灯，通常是在佛教寺庙的范围内，通常用五颜六色的纸装饰，就像这里一样。当灯笼周围的区域和女人的脸被照亮时，她的身体和狗几乎完全呈现为灰色，没有轮廓，营造出黄昏时的阴影效果柴田泽信主要以漆艺大师而闻名，但在日本向西方开放期间，他也是一位技艺高超的日本传统绘画和流派主题的画家和平面设计师。
介绍（英）	Obon, the Festival of Souls, is a Buddhist celebration held over the course of three days during late summer throughout Japan, often accompanied by festive public dances called Bon odori. It is believed that souls of ancestors return during this time, and small Obon lanterns on stands (obon chōchin 盆提灯) are lit to temporarily welcome back the spirits of deceased ancestors, while offerings are made at household altars. Family members also hang lanterns in front of their homes in order to help guide the spirits of the ancestors back to where they dwell in the afterlife. At the end of the Obon festival, the lanterns are released into the nearest body of water so that the spirits can return to the other world. In this print, the woman’s summer yukata (light cotton kimono) with blue floral patterns flutters in the breeze as she lights an Obon lantern (obon-doro お盆燈籠); a small dog stands beside her. Sometimes obon lanterns, often decorated with colorful papers, as here, were hung at graves of ancestors, usually in the precincts of Buddhist temples. While the area around the lantern and the face of the women are illuminated, her body and the dog are rendered almost entirely in shades of gray, without outlines, creating the effect of shadows at dusk. Shibata Zeshin was primarily known as a master lacquer artist, yet was also a highly skilled painter and print designer on traditional Japanese pictorial and genre themes during a time Japan was opening to the West.