Watanabe Kaiko / Peacocks under the Pine, A half of four-panel folding screen

The Watanabe family, village headmen of Suga in Nishi Ward, Niigata City, were
active over three generations which include Tanchi, the family’s fifth generation and Kaiko’s father who studied under Matsumura Keibun, the sixth generation Kaiko, and his son Etsuzan, the seventh generation.

Tags: latter half of the Edo period, modern times, modern times

2024年2月7日

Ukita Ikkei / Setting sun and a flock of crows

Ukita Ikkei is also known as Tomioka Tessai’s master of Yamato-e painting. This work vividly depicts a flock of crows.

Tags: modern times, year round

2024年6月4日

Tosa Mitsuoki / 3 Hanging scrolls of rising sun and quails

Mitsuoki, a representative painter of the Tosa school in the Edo period, was especially known as a master of quail paintings.

2023年3月29日

Tomita Keisen / Spring snow in the garden

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.

2024年2月18日

Tokuoka Shinsen / Red carp

Watching carp makes you feel like time is flowing slowly. This piece also conveys the image of carp floating leisurely with the seaweed.

Tags: modern times

2023年9月4日

Tokuoka Shinsen / Puppy

The work depicting a puppy under a bamboo tree is called “Issho-zu(一笑図)”, which expresses a wish for the prosperity of offspring.

Tags: modern times

2020年7月28日

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi / Red-billed Blue Magpie

This work was painted by the fifth shogun, Tsunayoshi, who is known for issuing the Edicts on Compassion for Living Things (Shōruiawareminorei).

Tags: modern times

2024年5月14日

The late Edo period and the Meiji era / Shunga of fox spirits

This erotic painting from the late Edo period and the Meiji era is a humorous depiction of a man who, while half asleep, is completely deceived by some fox spirits.

Tags: latter half of the Edo period, modern times

2021年9月2日

Tani Buncho / Two cats playing with butterflies

Two cats with playful expressions playing with butterflies. This work was painted in February 1836 when Buncho was 75 years old.

2020年5月21日

Tani Buncho / Reeds and a wild goose

Buncho appears to have painted the moment when the geese land on the pond with great vigor in a short space of time.

Tags: modern times

2023年7月1日