Festival on the Beach
海浜祭日
- Birth Year
- 1897
- Death Year
- 1987
- Date
- 1932
- Technique, Material, Format
- oil on canvas
- Dimension
- 167.5 x 272.5 cm
- Donor name
- Teisan Warehouse Co., Ltd.
- Category
- Oil or Other Painting by Japanese Artist
- Inventory Number
- 90-OJ-003
Koyama Keizo went to France in 1920 to study oil painting, and one year after returning to Japan, he established a studio in the coastal town of Chigasaki, in 1929. This work was based on the popular local Hamaori Festival that is held in summer and it was shown at the exhibition of the Shunyokai Association, of which Koyama was a member. The Hamaori Festival is held on Chigasaki’s Nishihama beach early in the morning on the third Monday of July. About 40 mikoshi (portable shrines) are gathered from local shrines, and a purification ceremony is held in the water. The painting depicts the lively scene of the mikoshi being carried over the beach by parishioners. This work was the original painting on which the drop curtain now in use at Chigasaki Civic Hall was based. For the curtain, the two women on the right side of the picture were removed, and the local landmark Eboshi Rock was added in the ocean on the left.
(KASHIWAGI Tomoh)