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Hanabusa Itcho / Bird on a Hagigaki with chrysanthemums
萩垣にちょこんととまる一匹の青い鳥。軽妙な筆致と温雅な色彩が美しい作品です。
2020年6月7日
Goshun / Grasshopper, rice and moon
This is a calming autumn piece that evokes the feeling of a refreshing night breeze.
Tags: modern times, Shijo Faction (of the LDP)
2020年6月17日
Garden landscapes of Spring and Autumn, A pair of six-panel folding screens painted in Mid-Edo period
Although the artist is unknown, these are the excellent Edo-period animal painting screens. The balance between the heavy background and the intricately drawn birds is beautiful and mysteriously charming.
Tags: modern times, small birds
2022年1月21日
Ganku / Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils
At first glance, it looks like a landscape painting, but there is a small tiger depicted. Based on the Chinese legend “Zhou Chu Eliminates Three Evils”, this painting depicts the scene of Zhou Chu killing the white-fronted tiger of Nanzan Mountain.
Tags: Chinese Zodiac Sign, Tiger, modern times, tiger (Panthera tigris), year round
2020年9月2日
Ganku / Tiger
At the time, tigers were generally depicted from the imagination, but it is said that Ganku obtained a tiger skull from a Chinese merchant and covered it with tiger skin before sketching.
2022年6月9日
Ganku / 2 hanging scrolls of tiger and waterfall
Ganku was so skilled at painting tigers that his tiger paintings were called “Ganku’s Tiger” with praise. The fierce, sharp gaze and the majestic appearance… the depiction is so powerful that you can almost hear the roar.
Tags: Chinese Zodiac Sign, Tiger, modern times, tiger (Panthera tigris)
2021年11月8日
Furusawa Setsuden / Summer flowers, grass and insects
Many small insects are vividly depicted among the colorful plants. Furusawa Setsuden was a student of Taki Katei, and like his teacher, he specialized in painting flowers-and-birds.
Tags: latter half of the Edo period, modern times, modern times
2021年9月22日
Fukuda Heihachiro / Puppies
This was painted in 1925 when Heihachiro was 33 years old. You can almost hear the breathing of the two sleeping puppies.
Tags: modern times, year round
2020年5月22日
Dodo Konen / A snake and Young bamboo
Snakes, which are depicted as evil in Western paintings, are considered symbols of wealth and water in Japan.
Tags: modern times
2020年6月17日
Cho Gessho / Cranes dance in the sunlight
Three cranes are flying in the golden sky. It is a celebratory scroll suitable for New Year’s Day.
Tags: modern times
2024年3月27日
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