Studio: international art (69.1916)

Reviews and Notices

REVIEWS AND
NOTICES.

Hadji Murat. By Count

'' ii&k-- ^EO Tolstoi. Illustrated

>ij 'Am E« E. Lanceray. (Petro-

v.'-» \&/f-i .V grad: Golike and Wilborg.)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^MESsM^^^B^^^^^^^^^^^M races before the country was

"an avenue of trees" by wada-eisaku subdued. Tolstoi as a young

officer personally took part

founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism, and stick in this campaign, which was not lacking in events

in two pieces of black charcoal for his eyes.) The of a romantic character, and at the end of his

kakemono had, in place of a drawing, simply two long career as an author a highly dramatic episode

black dots with a little space between. Around of these early years afforded him a motive for

these black dots each observer is to visualise a form a masterly piece of narrative in which the con-

of Daruma in snow. Only the essentials were trasts between European and Oriental culture

given with a sufficient suggestion in seventeen come into prominence. These contrasts, along

syllables to stir up one's recollections and imagina- with the picturesque figures and costumes and

tion to complete the kakemono. These two kake- the imposing landscape background, also provide

mono, among others, suggested that indescribable the illustrator with a fruitful source of inspiration,

something which is so essential for cha-no-yu. and the firm of Golike and Wilborg, well known

Wada-Eisaku, one of the
recognised masters of oil-
painting in Japan, held at
the galleries of Mitsukoshi
an individual exhibition
of his paintings on two
subjects: Fuji Mountain
and roses, among the best
being An Avenue of Trees,
showing Fuji as seen from
Yoshida-guchi, Fuji from
Miho, and Fuji in the

Morning viewed from Lake ^'. ■j^jSBBftBBBBIBBHMBMI

Kawaguchi.^ Later, at the Hp

Harada-Jiro. "fuji in the morning" by wada-eisaku

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