Artworks

Kutsugen

Artwork · Yokoyama Taikan · 1898 · kakemono · Itsukushima Shrine

Shown at the first exhibition of the Nihon Bijutsu’in, founded after Okakura Kakuzō was forced out of the Tokyo Bijutsu Gakkō: the Chinese poet Qu Yuan, who like Sugawara no Michizane fell from his ruler’s favour and drowned himself, stands heroically against a hostile wind — recognized at once as a comment on Okakura’s battle with the Ministry of Education. 1 Mason 2005, p. 367, fig. 435. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.