Tomita Keisen
【A little bird and cherry blossom】
Title
A little bird and cherry blossom
Detail
Materials : ink, colour and gold on silk
wooden boxed (double / signed by Yokoyama Taikan)
Size : W 42 × H 34.5 cm (Image) ・ W 57 × H 138 cm (Mount)
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.