[Japanese inn and musician]

Place Asia: Korea
Accession Number ART90321.002
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 30.1 x 21 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Hele, Ivor
Place made Australia: South Australia, Aldinga, Korea
Date made 1952
Conflict Korea, 1950-1953
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Second page in artist's sketchbook, depicting one large and two small drawings. The top drawing, ' Japanese inn and musician' depicts the interior of an inn or restuarant with three people sitting cross legged at a low table. At the end of the table a Japanese woman, dressed in traditional costume, plays a traditional stringed musical instrument, the shamisen. The two smaller drawings below are a profile sketch of the woman's head (left) and a rear view of the woman, dressed in traditional costume (right).