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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 trees and flowers and birds
晩年は尾張藩の御用絵師としても活躍した山本梅逸。こちらは御用絵師となる3年前の69歳時に描かれた一幅です。薔薇に松、笹の葉に鳥が様々な筆致で描き分けられ、筆遣いの巧みさが感じられます。
2024年6月24日
Yamaguchi Soken / Rabbits
Perhaps he used the rabbit paintings of his teacher Okyo as a reference. The slightly humorous expressions on the rabbits’ faces are a nice touch. It’s a fun rabbit painting to look at.
2020年9月13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 Iris and carps
This is a rare combination of carp and irises. Seitei barely depicts the surface of the water, instead depicting the overlapping carp and aquatic plants from a bird’s-eye view, creating a sense of depth and transparency below the water’s surface.
Tags: latter half of the Edo period, modern times
2025年3月11日
Watanabe Seitei / Two carps under a waterfall
円山応挙の《青楓瀑布図》を彷彿とさせる構図ながら、省亭ならではの乾燥した張りのある筆遣いが活かされています。岩の墨色に対し、鯉は一割程度の濃度で描かれていますが、その巧みさにより、水飛沫の中であたかも鯉が見え隠れしている様が目前に浮かんでくるようです。
Tags: latter half of the Edo period, modern times
2025年3月16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
Watanabe Nangaku / Children playing with rabbits
Although European rabbits were introduced to Japan during the Muromachi period (1336-1573), albino rabbits were first seen in the painting done by Nangaku’s teacher, Maruyama Okyo, in 1784 in the Edo period.
Tags: modern times
2024年6月6日
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
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