Tomita Keisen
【Spring snow in the garden】
Title
Spring snow in the garden
Detail
Materials : ink, colour and gold on silk
wooden boxed (double / signed by painter)
Size : W 36 × H 130 cm (Image) ・ W 49.5 × H 217.5 cm (Mount)
sign of gold ink
Artist History
Tomita Keisen (1879-1936) was a Japanese painter from the Meiji to Showa periods. He studied the Kano school and the Shijo school, and later became an admirer of Sengai Gibon and Tomioka Tessai. He also studied Buddhist paintings from the Nara and Heian periods. He is known for his interactions with the poet Paul Claudel, who was the French ambassador to Japan.