Artworks

The Tropics (Morning)

Artwork · Shikō Imamura · 1914 · handscroll · Tokyo National Museum

The masterpiece of Shikō Imamura (1880–1916), after a journey to India in 1914: two yamato-e handscrolls of a south Indian landscape in the morning and the evening, a seamless blend of Eastern and Western techniques — the absence of outlines a nod to Rinpa, the naive charm and repetitive brushstrokes reminiscent of Van Gogh and Gauguin. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 367–368, fig. 436. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.