「日本画の女性は華奢なのに強そう？」 鏑木清方記念美術館 Japanese Painting: Women in Japanese Painting Look Slender but Strong? Kiyokata Kaburaki Memorial Museum of Art

鎌倉に行った時に、ちょっとだけ寄った日本画家の美術館。
実は、一度通り過ぎてしまったくらい、地域に溶け込んだ佇まいでした。
それもそのはずで、清方氏が晩年に住んでいた家なので、全く美術館らしくないからです。

今回は『「清方×文学」紅葉への憧憬、鏡花との友情』という特別展で、文学作品の押絵が多かったように感じました。

日本画の女性は誰が見ても華奢なイメージに描かれているのに、私自身は、何故かいつも描かれた女性の意思の強さを感じてしまうのです。

画家がそれを意識して描いていたのか、私の頭の中だけのことなのか？

This is a museum of Japanese-style painters that I briefly dropped by when I was in Kamakura.
In fact, it was so integrated into the local community that I passed by it once.
That's because it is the house where Kiyokata lived in his later years, so it doesn't look like an art museum at all.

This time, there was a special exhibition titled "Kiyokata x Literature: Yearning for Autumn Leaves and Friendship with Kyoka," and I felt that there were many push-paintings of literary works.

For some reason, I myself always feel the strength of will of the women depicted, even though women in Japanese paintings are depicted in a slender image in everyone's eyes.

Was the painter conscious of this, or is it just in my mind?