DOI Heft:
No. 304 (July 1918)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21265#0074
Studio- Talk
THREE OF THE "SIX VIEWS OF MOUNTAIN PATHS BY YAMADA-KEICHU
{Eleventh Mombusho Art Exhibition, Tokyo)
and the work, when completed, is anticipated Keichu, of Tokyo, exhibited a set of panels
to be the greatest work of his life. Among entitled Six Views of Mountain Paths, full of
other Kyoto artists prominently represented meritorious qualities, as was also the case with
was Kawamura-Manshu, whose special talent Tanaka-Raisho's Waterfalls of Four Seasons.
in portraying the effect of the mist on land- -
scape was well displayed in a set of three Works by women artists were conspicuously
paintings entitled Nikon Sankei, depicting three rare on this occasion. The foremost among
places most noted for scenic beauty in Japan, them, Uyemura-Shoyen, of Kyoto, was unable
Miyajima, Matsushima, and Ama-no-Hashidate ; to send this time ; and Ikeda-Shoyen, latterly
and Shoda-Kakuyu, whose set of four paintings the best-known lady artist in Tokyo, was unable
of The Moon of the Four Seasons was one of through serious illness to complete the work she
the best I have seen of this subject, often intended sending, and passed away soon after
attempted by our artists. the exhibition closed. Only two women ex-
- hibited in the section of Japanese painting :
The exhibition contained many other praise- Shima-Seiyen of Osaka, and Kurihara-Gyokuyo
worthy landscapes. Takashima-Hokkai, of of Tokyo. The former exhibited a rather
Tokyo, one of the Committee, who became dramatic subject—In the Midst of a Song—a
known abroad at the time of the St. Louis blind girl singing and playing on the samisen,
World's Fair in 1905, showed an improvement portrayed at an embarrassing instant when
of his art in his Four Views of Kongozan, a one of the strings came to grief,
product of his recent visit to Korea. Yamada- Harada-Jiro.
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THREE OF THE "SIX VIEWS OF MOUNTAIN PATHS BY YAMADA-KEICHU
{Eleventh Mombusho Art Exhibition, Tokyo)
and the work, when completed, is anticipated Keichu, of Tokyo, exhibited a set of panels
to be the greatest work of his life. Among entitled Six Views of Mountain Paths, full of
other Kyoto artists prominently represented meritorious qualities, as was also the case with
was Kawamura-Manshu, whose special talent Tanaka-Raisho's Waterfalls of Four Seasons.
in portraying the effect of the mist on land- -
scape was well displayed in a set of three Works by women artists were conspicuously
paintings entitled Nikon Sankei, depicting three rare on this occasion. The foremost among
places most noted for scenic beauty in Japan, them, Uyemura-Shoyen, of Kyoto, was unable
Miyajima, Matsushima, and Ama-no-Hashidate ; to send this time ; and Ikeda-Shoyen, latterly
and Shoda-Kakuyu, whose set of four paintings the best-known lady artist in Tokyo, was unable
of The Moon of the Four Seasons was one of through serious illness to complete the work she
the best I have seen of this subject, often intended sending, and passed away soon after
attempted by our artists. the exhibition closed. Only two women ex-
- hibited in the section of Japanese painting :
The exhibition contained many other praise- Shima-Seiyen of Osaka, and Kurihara-Gyokuyo
worthy landscapes. Takashima-Hokkai, of of Tokyo. The former exhibited a rather
Tokyo, one of the Committee, who became dramatic subject—In the Midst of a Song—a
known abroad at the time of the St. Louis blind girl singing and playing on the samisen,
World's Fair in 1905, showed an improvement portrayed at an embarrassing instant when
of his art in his Four Views of Kongozan, a one of the strings came to grief,
product of his recent visit to Korea. Yamada- Harada-Jiro.
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