Who is it?
The Fukuoka City Museum gathers various
objects every year through either donations or purchases. Self-portraits are no
exception. A large number of them are self-portraits of historically unknown
people. Curators of the museum try to find out whose self-portrait it is by
investigating inscribed comments, as well as the subject’s facial features and
clothes.
One self-portrait, which carries a comment
written by the priest Taikan in 1847, is an example of such a portrait.
Depicted in it is an elderly man whose name is unknown. However, by looking at
the “dantsu” carpet he is sitting on, and the books piled beside him, we can
assume that he might be a prestigious person and as such was highly recognized
by the Fukuoka Clan. He might have been a doctor seeing that he shaved his head
and wore black clothes.
This exhibition introduces various
unidentified portraits and tries to find out who they are.
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