Artworks

Egret Under Flowering Mallows

Artwork · Yamamoto Baiitsu · 1833 · kakemono

A bird-and-flower painting by Yamamoto Baiitsu (1783–1856) of Nagoya, admired for his delicately coloured decorative style: the egret’s feathers built up in spontaneous strokes against its thin dark legs and long beak, the mallow leaves and lily pads in tarashikomi, the pink of the flowers completing the composition. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 339–340, fig. 396. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.