| schema:description 2 | "Tokan Fudeya (1875–1950) was born in Otaru and moved to Tokyo when he was 19 years old. He studied under Gaho Hashimoto at the Tokyo Fine Arts School (today’s Tokyo University of the Arts) and was also influenced by one of Hashimoto’s pupils, Taikan Yokoyama. He played an active role primarily in the Nihon Bijutsuin (Japan Art Institute) while maintaining ties with Hokkaido, for example, as a member of the Hokkaido Artists Association. The work pictured here features Yang Guifei, the beloved consort of the Tang Emperor Xuanzong, bathing in Hua-Qing Spa on a cold spring day. It was inspired by the passage “She was privileged to bathe in Hua-Qing Spa on a cold day in spring” taken from The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by the renowned Chinese poet Bai Juyi. The work perfectly depicts a scene smothered in clouds of steam using the mokkotsu painting technique in which objects are rendered in ink or colors without using an outline (a technique used in Oriental painting, notably bird-and-flower painting). In 1924, the work was displayed at the 11th exhibition of the Saiko Nihon Bijutsuin (Reorganized Japan Fine Art Academy)....(more)" |
