Studio: international art (71.1917)

Studio- Talk

" a thatched house and the voice
of the pine." by arai-suiko

TOKYO.—The tenth annual art exhibi-
tion under the auspices of the
Department of Education, which
was recently held at Uyeno Park,
Tokyo, was extremely popular. (The exhibition
is generally known in Japan as " Bun-Ten "
for short: " Bun " is another pronunciation of
the first character of Mon-bu-sho, or the De-
partment of Education, and " Ten " is the first
character of Ten-ran-kai, or exhibition.) Its
popularity may be judged from the fact that
during its run of about five weeks, nearly a
quarter of a million persons visited the galleries.
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And when it was moved to Kyoto to be shown
there for a brief period, it again drew thousands
of visitors daily. The " Bun-Ten " in Tokyo
contained 144 paintings in the Japanese style,
chosen out of 2356 pictures submitted; 92
paintings in the Western style selected from
among 1551 oil and water-colour paintings sent
in ; and 36 pieces of sculpture passed out of 221
submitted to the judging committee. I can
refer here to only a limited number of these
works, and chiefly those in which new tendencies
were indicated.

To judge from the paintings generally, strong
efforts are being made by our artists to express
the moods,"the inner feelings of their subjects.
On this point perhaps none has succeeded so

"fuji-mame" by emori-tenju