Artworks

Fukuzawa Yukichi

Artwork · Ōkuma Ujihiro · 1892 · sculpture · Keio Shiki Senior High School

The masterwork of Ōkuma Ujihiro (1856–1934), Ragusa’s most talented student: Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835–1901), founder of Keiō University and one of the founders of new Japan, seated in a formal pose with an alert, enquiring expression; the textures of jacket and trousers differ so that natural light makes a believable pattern of highlights and shadows. 1 Mason 2005, p. 356, fig. 418. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.