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Yamamoto Shunkyo / A rare bird on the winter shore
This bird has a charming bright yellow belly. Grey wagtails have the habit of constantly shaking their tail feathers up and down. This is a scroll that conveys the artist’s interest.
Tags: modern times
2023年9月9日
Yamamoto Koitsu / Four seasons, Flowers and Birds, A pair of medium size six-panel folding screens
Yamamoto Koitsu was a central figure in The First Japanese Manufacturing and Trading Company (起立工商会社) and created many drafts for the company’s production.
Tags: latter half of the Edo period, modern times, modern times, small birds, year round
2024年5月26日
Yamamoto Baiitsu / Red peach blossoms with two swallows
Swallows migrate to Japan with the arrival of spring. In this work, they are depicted together with peach blossoms, creating a scent of spring on the screen.
2023年8月5日
Yamamoto Baiitsu / Pine tree and flowers and birds
The painter Baiitsu also worked as an official painter for the Owari domain in his later years. This is a painting created at the age of 69, three years before he became the official painter for Owari.
Tags: modern times, pine tree (Pinus spp.), small birds
2024年6月24日
Yamaguchi Soken / Cormorant fishing
The smooth brushstrokes vividly and beautifully depict the scene of cormorant fishing. This work was painted by Yamaguchi Soken, one of the Ten Excellent Painters of the Okyo School.
2021年5月30日
Yamaguchi Soken / A tiger drinking water in a strong wind
A tiger drinking water from a river while being buffeted by a strong wind. Its expression is adorable and not the least bit scary. Yamaguchi Soken specialized in Japanese-beauty paintings, but he also painted a variety of animal paintings.
Tags: Chinese Zodiac Sign, Tiger, modern times
2020年8月25日
Watanabe Seitei / Two hanging scrolls of Irises and Carps
This is a rare combination of carps and irises. Seitei created a sense of depth and transparency beneath the water’s surface by barely depicting the water itself and instead focusing on the overlapping carps and aquatic plants from a bird’s-eye view.
Tags: latter half of the Edo period, modern times
2025年3月11日
Watanabe Seitei / Two carps under a waterfall
The composition is reminiscent of Maruyama Okyo’s “Green Maple and Waterfall,” but Seitei’s characteristically dry and taut brushwork is effectively showcased. The carp is painted at about 10% of the ink color of the rocks, but the skill of the brushwork makes it seem as if the carps are appearing and disappearing amid the splashing water, vividly coming to life before your eyes.
Tags: latter half of the Edo period, modern times
2025年3月16日
Watanabe Seitei / Little birds under the moon
This painting exudes a sense of tranquility, depicting a faintly rising moon and the birds hanging out beneath it. It showcases Seitei’s signature delicate depiction and vibrant, transparent brushstrokes.
2025年9月23日
Watanabe Nangaku / Stream, Young sweetfish
The painting shows a school of sweetfish swimming with the current of the river, and the artist’s skill in maximizing the image with minimal elements is superb. This is a work that only Nangaku, who excelled at painting scaled fish, could have created.
Tags: modern times
2020年8月30日
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