Artworks

Building a House in the Mountains

Artwork · Uragami Gyokudō · 1792 · kakemono

An early painting by Uragami Gyokudō (1745–1820), the official of the Ikeda clan who in 1794 resigned his post and wandered through Japan with his koto: closer to Taiga than to his later work, with coloured washes and repeated brushstrokes for the foliage. 1 Mason 2005, p. 337, fig. 393. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.