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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.
Tags: modern times, Shijo Faction (of the LDP), small birds
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 Yorinobu / Bush warbler on a plum tree
This is a painting of a plum tree and a bush warbler by Tokugawa Yoriyoshi, the first feudal lord of the Kishu Tokugawa clan. This work is accompanied by a letter from Matsudaira Mitsumichi, the feudal lord of Fukui.
Tags: modern times, small birds
2020年5月23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, small birds
2024年5月14日
Tani Buncho / Wild goose
This work’s spatial composition created using only ink is magnificent. It was painted in 1836 when Buncho was 75 years old.
2020年7月5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.
Tags: modern times
2023年7月1日
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