DOI issue:
No. 293 (August 1917)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21263#0139
Studio- Talk
whole was an unqualified success. All through also contained an interesting collection of
the two months during which it was open it Japanese prints, etchings, and lithographs,
was visited by throngs of people, and a large showing European influences on our art. We
number of purchases were made. J. G. M. reproduce here a pair of panels for mural
decoration by Kawabe-Masao which were shown
TOKYO.—TheKokuminBijutsuKyokai at this exhibition. The subject is the well-
national Fine Art Association) lately known Japanese fairy-tale, " Hagoromo " (The
held its fifth annual exhibition at Feather Robe). I venture to give a brief
Uyeno Park. Several paintings in synopsis of the tale from the text in the
the European style were noteworthy. Cherry Japanese " No " drama.
Tree in a Barley Field, by Sakamoto-Shigejiro, -
was distinguished for its depth of feeling. At When a fisherman named Hakuryo was
Sundown, in oil, by Makino-Torao, had a admiring the beauty of spring scenery on the
charm and strength in direct expression of the pine-clad promontory of Miho early one morning,
intense glow of the west caught by the clouds, flowers fell from the sky and sweet music and
and of the gloom of the approaching night in fragrance filled the air. After a search he
the deep turbulent sea. The serene calm of a found a strange robe of beautiful feathers of
moonlight night was well expressed by Kikuchi- eternal colours hanging on the branch of a
Goro in his Light Night in oil. The exhibition pine-tree near by. He took the robe down
HAGOROMO MURAL PAINTING BY KAWABE-MASAO
{National Fine Art Association, Tokyo)
123
whole was an unqualified success. All through also contained an interesting collection of
the two months during which it was open it Japanese prints, etchings, and lithographs,
was visited by throngs of people, and a large showing European influences on our art. We
number of purchases were made. J. G. M. reproduce here a pair of panels for mural
decoration by Kawabe-Masao which were shown
TOKYO.—TheKokuminBijutsuKyokai at this exhibition. The subject is the well-
national Fine Art Association) lately known Japanese fairy-tale, " Hagoromo " (The
held its fifth annual exhibition at Feather Robe). I venture to give a brief
Uyeno Park. Several paintings in synopsis of the tale from the text in the
the European style were noteworthy. Cherry Japanese " No " drama.
Tree in a Barley Field, by Sakamoto-Shigejiro, -
was distinguished for its depth of feeling. At When a fisherman named Hakuryo was
Sundown, in oil, by Makino-Torao, had a admiring the beauty of spring scenery on the
charm and strength in direct expression of the pine-clad promontory of Miho early one morning,
intense glow of the west caught by the clouds, flowers fell from the sky and sweet music and
and of the gloom of the approaching night in fragrance filled the air. After a search he
the deep turbulent sea. The serene calm of a found a strange robe of beautiful feathers of
moonlight night was well expressed by Kikuchi- eternal colours hanging on the branch of a
Goro in his Light Night in oil. The exhibition pine-tree near by. He took the robe down
HAGOROMO MURAL PAINTING BY KAWABE-MASAO
{National Fine Art Association, Tokyo)
123