Hirata Goyo

Hirata Gōyō ( Japanese 平田郷陽 , real name Hirata Tsuneo ( 平田恒雄 ); born November 25, 1903 in Tokyo Prefecture ; † March 23, 1981 ) was a Japanese dollmaker who was named as such in 1955 as a living national treasure in the category: Doll manufacturing was appointed.

Life

Hirata began making lifelike dolls ( 活人形 ) at the age of 12, first from his father, then from Yasumoto Kamehara (1826–1900) to learn. When his father Hirata Goyō I dies in 1924, Hirata takes over the doll manufacturing business from him. Hirata specialized in the production of "Ishō dolls" ( 衣裳人形 , ~ ningyō , literally: dolls in a splendid wardrobe). In addition to the “Ishō dolls”, which are made of solid wood, he also produced dolls with sawdust filling as part of the “Aoi me no ningyō” program ( 青い目の人形 ) between America and Japan in the 1920s. In 1937 he made dolls for the world exhibition in Paris .

Web links

平田郷陽の作品画像、写真集【人間国宝・人形作家】 . matome,accessed April 15, 2014(Japanese, with many illustrations of the works of Hirata).

Remarks

↑ "isho Dolls" were in the Edo period to the dowry of daughters from families of the warrior nobility . As a wedding gift, the dolls had the task of keeping bad luck away from the new household.
↑ Due to the Immigration Act of 1924 , immigration was difficult to America Japanese. Against this background, as a gesture of friendship , the missionary Sidney Gulick initiated the dispatch of over 12,700 dolls, so-called “Japanese friendship dolls” or “American blue-eyed dolls”, to Japanese children on the occasion of the Hina Matsuri . This gesture was reciprocated in 1927 at the instigation of the Japanese entrepreneur Shibusawa Eiichi by sending 58 Japanese dolls, some of which are still preserved in various American museums and private collections.

Individual evidence

↑ 平田郷陽 (2 代) . In: デジタル版日本人名大辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved April 14, 2014 (Japanese).
↑ ^a ^b 作品紹介 . Tonami Orimono, accessed April 15, 2014 (Japanese).

personal data
SURNAME	Hirata, Goyo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	平田郷陽 (Japanese); Hirata, Tsuneo (real name); 平田恒雄 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese doll maker
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tokyo prefecture
DATE OF DEATH	March 23, 1981

[3] "isho Dolls" were in the Edo period to the dowry of daughters from families of the warrior nobility . As a wedding gift, the dolls had the task of keeping bad luck away from the new household.

[4] Due to the Immigration Act of 1924 , immigration was difficult to America Japanese. Against this background, as a gesture of friendship , the missionary Sidney Gulick initiated the dispatch of over 12,700 dolls, so-called “Japanese friendship dolls” or “American blue-eyed dolls”, to Japanese children on the occasion of the Hina Matsuri . This gesture was reciprocated in 1927 at the instigation of the Japanese entrepreneur Shibusawa Eiichi by sending 58 Japanese dolls, some of which are still preserved in various American museums and private collections.

[kotobank-1] 平田郷陽 (2 代) . In: デジタル版日本人名大辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved April 14, 2014 (Japanese).

[tonami-2] 作品紹介 . Tonami Orimono, accessed April 15, 2014 (Japanese).