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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.

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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 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.

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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).

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2024年5月14日

Tetsuo Somon / Senri oukou (Crabs) (wide hanging scroll)


In the world of art and calligraphy, the phrase “Senri Oukou (千里横行)” represents a crab, with the crab’s shell likened to armor. It is said that this motif was adopted as a motif for the furnishings of many samurai from the end of the Muromachi period onwards.

2025年9月9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

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