Artworks

Fudō Myōō

Artwork · Kanō Hōgai · 1887 · kakemono · Tokyo University of the Arts

A work of the last four years of Kanō Hōgai (1828–1888), the Kanō painter of the Mōri family who fared badly after the Restoration until Ernest Fenollosa discovered him in 1884: Fudō’s dark-grey body and bright red robe are modelled with highlights and shadows, a synthesis of Eastern and Western elements in the spirit of the Kangakai. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 363–364, fig. 430. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.