Artworks

Boating on the Inagawa

Artwork · Tanomura Chikuden · 1829 · kakemono

One of the gentlest paintings of Tanomura Chikuden (1777–1835), physician’s son and teacher in the Oka domain of Kyūshū, who resigned in frustration after his proposals for the peasants were rejected: a day spent fishing with Rai San'yo, the two absorbed in conversation in their boats, the house of their merchant hosts above, in pale grey, blue-green and pink dotting. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 338–339, fig. 395. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.