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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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2024年5月14日


Tani Buncho / Two cats playing with butterflies


Two cats with comical 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 seems to have captured the exact moment when the wild goose landed on the pond and painted it with great vigor in a short amount of time.

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2023年7月1日


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