Artworks

White Clouds, Red Leaves

Artwork · Hashimoto Gahō · 1890 · kakemono · Tokyo University of the Arts

By Hashimoto Gahō (1835–1908), Hōgai’s fellow student of the Kanō master Shōsen’in, who painted fans for export and maps for the Naval Cadet School before Fenollosa found him; chief professor of painting at the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkō, then at the Nihon Bijutsu’in. Layers of rock overlap to carry the eye into a distance hidden by mist — Western atmospheric perspective in a traditional landscape scheme. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 364–365, fig. 431. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.