The Origins of the Red Sun Motif : National Idols in Chinese and Japanese Paintings

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  • 「紅太陽」モチーフの由来 : 中国と日本の絵画に見る国家アイドル

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This article seeks the origin of the red sun (hong taiyang in Chinese), a motif that Chinese painter Fu Baoshi used in his works during the 1950s and 1960s. A similar motif can be found in some works made by Japanese painters during the 1920s and 1930s, though there is no definitive evidence that Fu learned directly from them. Rather, I argue that Fu and his Japanese counterparts drew from an East Asian tradition for depicting national idols that was exemplified in Tianbao jiuru, a theme which had been shared between China and Japan for a long time.

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  • 世界の日本研究

    世界の日本研究 2022 102-112, 2023-03-15

    International Research Center for Japanese Studies

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