International studio (44.1911)

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“scenery on lake biwa”

BY NOMURA BUNKYO

TOKYO.—The Japanese art world suffered
a great loss by the recent death of
Nomura Bunkyo, who was considered
the greatest exponent of the Shiokawa
style of painting, which belongs to the Maruyama
school founded by Okyo. He had been working
until late one evening on a pair of scrolls {tsuifuku)
of Horai-zan, a favourite landscape subject for

Japanese and Chinese artists, and died suddenly
the following morning from congestion of the brain,
leaving his pictures unfinished. Thus his last
effort was on a landscape painting, in which subject
he excelled. Horai-zan was the title of a picture
he presented to the Crown Prince of Japan at the
time when he was a pupil at the Peers’ School,
where Bunkyo was teaching. This painting gained


“spring’
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BY NOMURA BUNKYO