Ebina Masao (1913-1980)

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Prints in Collection

Hahakigi (chapter 2)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2457
Utsusemi (chapter 3)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2453
Yūgao (chapter 4)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2498

Suetsumu-hana (chapter 6)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints. c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2496
Autumn Celebration (chapter 7)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2449 and #2524
Hana-no-en (chapter 8)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2551

Aoi (chapter 9)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2450

Sakaki (chapter 10)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2447

Hanachirusato (chapter 11)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2452

Suma (chapter 12)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2469

Miotsukushi (chapter 14)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2445

Sekiya (Chapter 16)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2470

Picture Competition (chapter 17)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2497

Matsukaze (chapter 18)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
n Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2554

Usu-gumo (chapter 19)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2441

Asagao (chapter 20)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2549

Tamakatsura (chapter 22)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2518

Butterfly (chapter 24)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2443

Hotaru (chapter 25)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2455
Perpetual Summer (chapter 26)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2553

Kagari-bi (chapter 27)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2448

Autumn Gale (chapter 28)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2519

The Imperial Visit (chapter 29)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2442

Chinese Agrimony (chapter 30)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2499

Umegae (chapter 32)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2468

Fuji-uraba (chapter 33)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2495
Wakana, Part 1 (chapter 34)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2451 and #2522

The Flute (chapter 37)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. 2471

Suzumushi (chapter 38)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2552

Illusion (chapter 41)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2523

The Red Plums (chapter 43)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2548

Hashi-Hime (chapter 45)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2456

Shigamoto (chapter 46)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2454

Agemaki (chapter 47)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2440

A Pavilion (chapter 50)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2446

The Gossamer-Fly (chapter 52)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2520

Practicing Penmanship (chapter 53)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2521

The Bridge of Dreams (chapter 54)
from the album
Illustrations for Genji monogatari
in Fifty-Four Wood-Cut Prints, c. 1953
IHL Cat. #2444

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Biographical Data

Biography

Ebina Masao 海老名正夫 (1913-1980)

Sources: Hirano Museum http://www.hirano-museum.jp/ebina-m2.html and Independent Administrative Institution National Institutes for Cultural Heritage https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/10022.html (viewed 2021-03-23)

The nihonga (Japanese-style) painter Ebina Masao, was born in Kyoto on June 21, 1913. His father, Ebina Chōkō 海老名長紅 (1881-1959), was a nihonga painter who must have encouraged his son's artistic talents as Masao was to attend Kyoto City University of Arts starting in 1933. While in the university's graduate program Masao studied under the nihonga painter Kikuchi Keigetsu (1879-1955). In 1937, while still a graduate student, he received a first prize at the first annual Shin Bunten¹ exhibition for his work Sō 爽 (さわやか).Completing graduate school in 1940 he would go on to further acclaim, winning the Kyoto Exhibition Award in 1947 and additional awards from the Nitten², the successor to the Shin Bunten.

Upon Keigetsu's death in 1955 he began studying with nihonga painter Uda Tekison 宇田荻邨 (1896-1980) and would participate in the formation of Tekison's painting school in 1956. He would win a Grand Prize at the 1956 Nitten Exhibition and the Nitten Hakuju Prize in 1970. In 1958 he was commissioned to paint the fusuma (sliding doors) during the renovation of the Kogosho (Court Room building) of the Kyoto Imperial Palace.

In 1976 he became a Nitten Kaiyu or member of the Nitten association. Ebina passed away at the age of 66 on January 4, 1980.

Ebina Masao is best remembered for his humanistic portrayal of women, whether rural farmers or Kyoto maiko and for his woodblock print portfolio Illustrations for Genji monogatari In 54 Wood-cut Prints 木版画源氏五十四帖, first issued in 1953.

Examples of the Artist's Work

Sources: websites of Komorebi Company and Koubidou

Typical Signatures and Seals

正夫

Masao

正夫 / 正夫

Masao / Masao

正夫 / 正夫

Masao / Masao

¹ The establishment of theShin Bunten, the successor to the Teiten (Imperial Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition formed in 1919), in 1936 was a further attempt to bring outlying artists and newstyles into the Imperial Academy system, along with figures from the leadingindependent art groups.

² After 1945 the Shin Bunten was renamed Nihon bijutsu tenrankai (日本美術展覧会), or Nitten for short, and was no longer state run.

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3/22/2021 created

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