Summer Evening｜Hashimoto Kansetsu
Autumn Exhibition,2023 CLOSED
Developed New Ground in Fields of Animals or Flowers
Hashimoto Kansetsu and Sakakibara Shiho
August 31 （Thu） ‐ November 30 （Thu）, 2023
From Meiji to Showa, there were two Japanese painters that flourished in Kyoto; Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883-1945) and Sakakibara Shiho (1887-1971).
Kansetsu began studying China during his early childhood, and he was later highly regarded for his works inspired by the Chinese classics and other literature. In his later years, he increasingly depicted animals as subjects. His animal paintings, showing his elegant and high mind, represent the culmination of the Kansetsu art world.
Meanwhile, Shiho continued painting flower and bird paintings throughout his life. He tried to grasp the beauty of nature in every detail, earnestly working on painting while living his daily life in a strict manner. His clear, refined works demonstrate Shiho’s devoted eyes into nature.
This exhibition will display works by Kansetsu and Shiho, who developed new art worlds of animal painting and flower and bird painting, respectively. We hope that you appreciate the art by these two masters, who have left their mark on the modern Kyoto art circle.
Kansetsu began studying China during his early childhood, and he was later highly regarded for his works inspired by the Chinese classics and other literature. In his later years, he increasingly depicted animals as subjects. His animal paintings, showing his elegant and high mind, represent the culmination of the Kansetsu art world.
Meanwhile, Shiho continued painting flower and bird paintings throughout his life. He tried to grasp the beauty of nature in every detail, earnestly working on painting while living his daily life in a strict manner. His clear, refined works demonstrate Shiho’s devoted eyes into nature.
This exhibition will display works by Kansetsu and Shiho, who developed new art worlds of animal painting and flower and bird painting, respectively. We hope that you appreciate the art by these two masters, who have left their mark on the modern Kyoto art circle.
Sakakibara Shiho
"Azure-winged Magpie in Peony Bush"
(c.1953)
"Azure-winged Magpie in Peony Bush"
(c.1953)
Appreciate And Learn Masterpieces
“Subject Dictionary”—Motifs of Japanese Painting—
Among the various motifs in Japanese paintings, this exhibition will feature masterpieces of those most often depicted. We will display them along with the meanings of the subjects. Appreciating them by opening the “subject dictionary,” so to speak, would be helpful to better understand Japanese painting.
Kobayashi Kokei
"umawakamaru"
(1907)
"umawakamaru"
(1907)
Selected Works from the Taikan Collection—Autumn—
While arranging a bold, gorgeous folding screen, Autumn Leaves, which is exhibited every autumn, we will exhibit other Taikan works from his early to later years, including Autumn: Four Seasons of the Sea expressing the sea in the autumn night with a lonely atmosphere, and Distant Landscape depicted in the year before his death.
Yokoyama Taikan
"Autumn Leaves"
(1931)
"Autumn Leaves"
(1931)
