Matsuno Hideyo

Matsuno Hideyo  松野秀世 (1936-2002)  

BIOGRAPHY

One of six siblings and son of the print artist and painter of the Noh theatre Matsuno Sōfū (1899-1963), Hideyo followed in his father's footsteps.  In addition to studying with his father, he attended Tokyo Gakugei Nihon Gakuin (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, now known as Tokyo University of the Arts), graduating in 1960, and in that same year won first prize at the Japan Art Institute exhibition 日本美術院展.  He is best known for his paintings of stage backdrops kagami-ita for the Kanze Noh theater in Tokyo, the Nagoya Noh Theater (名古屋能楽堂 Nohgaku-do) and the Noh thater at the MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Shizuoka and a series of wall paintings at Itsukushima Shinto shrine.  As far as extant woodblock prints, his only work I am aware of is the 1970 series of prints Twelve Months of Noh Pictures 十二佳月能雅摺 published in 1970 by Unsōdō Publishing.  In this series the publisher used Hideyo's designs and those of his deceased father. 

Hideyo died suddenly in February 2002 from a hemorrhagic stroke.

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Prints in Collection

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