International studio (16.1902)

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create on a broad basis, taking a new subject like
SEsop’s Fables, which lend so much to a decorative
gold screen, yet remain true to the ideals of
Sotatsu and Korin, those master decorators of
the seventeenth century.”
In the other screen, The Crow with the Peacock's
Feathers, on the branch of a ginko tree, the crow
is painted in a very original way; the yellow ginko
leaves are close in value and tone to the gold of the
screen, yet they show splendidly. Both screens
are strong, yet subtle in value. With all the power
of the great seventeenth-century masters, Kanzan
has an originality and a simplicity and a subtlety
and tenderness of values that are all his own.

There are strong men among the members of
the Bijitsu-in—men who stand for the true art of
Japan, not clinging merely to old traditions, not
deluged by the foreign wave, but loyal to the ideals,
the spirituality of art, that inspired the great old
masters. Josephine M. Hyde.
STUDIO-TALK
(From our oiun Correspo?idents)
ONDON.—The recent elections at the
Royal Academy cannot be said to have
much significance. Mr. Bodley, the
architect, who has succeeded Onslow
Ford on the roll of Academicians, is a correct and



“THE CROW WITH THE PEACOCK’S FEATHERS ”

BY SHIMAMURA KANZAN


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