Drache | Kanō Tanyū 狩野探幽 | 1602-1674 material:silk This very point reveals how

This very point reveals how little Mori Kansai cared about a "correctly realistic" veduta

For the painter

im British Museum in London

whose finely structured dark pink center lies neither on the horizontal nor the vertical central axis of the circle

In Japan werden vor allem an Neujahr eine Gruppe von sieben Glücksgöttern chinesischen Ursprungs verehrt

Drache | Kanō Tanyū 狩野探幽 | 1602-1674 material:silk This very point reveals howKan Tany began a new chapter in Japanese art history. He was born almost exactly at the beginning of the Edo period (1603 1867). In this period, neither the court nor the military aristocracy were leading in culture, but rather city dwellers with merchants and craftsmen increasingly determined the aesthetics in the arts. Since Tany, the Kan school, which was the most important painting institution in Japan for centuries, cultivated various styles,