Rundbild Jiuta (das Tanzstück Yuki 雪 „Schnee“) | Matsumoto Ichiyō　松本一洋 | 1893-1952 format:62cm x 140cm Konoshima Ōkoku was an intelligent

Konoshima Ōkoku was an intelligent and educated painter

a small bird (likely a Japanese nightingale

The almost Mediterranean blue of this bay in front of Mount Fuji has never been experienced as intensely in the history of art as in this diptych

But then there is his other side: an encounter with European painting on the quasi "ghetto island" of Deshima in Nagasaki shocked him so much that he immersed himself in the study of European oil painting and etching with an intensity that none of his contemporaries could match

any sense of obscurity disappears

Rundbild Jiuta (das Tanzstück Yuki 雪 „Schnee“) | Matsumoto Ichiyō　松本一洋 | 1893-1952 format:62cm x 140cm Konoshima Ōkoku was an intelligentMatsumoto Ichiy is a painter who grew up immersed in Kyoto culture and remained connected to the city as a teacher. He has participated in countless prestigious exhibitions in Japan and has received numerous awards. He is a typical Nihonga painter, meaning he belongs to the school of thought that, since the late 19th century, has focused on creating a new, traditionally Japanese art. This style is recognizable primarily by its distinctly Japanese