Samurai–Seven Painters Who Dared the Innovation of Japanese Painting

In the Meiji Period, painters who tried to create new painting styles suitable for the new age appeared in the Japanese art world. Then each painter breathed new life into it; Yokoyama Taikan depicted advanced works one after another, and Takeuchi Seiho incorporated Western painting techniques to pursue a new expression manner based on the traditions of the Maruyama-Shijo school. Hishida Shunso worked on innovation with Taikan. Kawai Gyokudo, Hashimoto Kansetsu and Ito Shinsui were highly esteemed in each field in governmental exhibitions. Kawabata Ryushi released active, bold works under the ideal of “art for exhibitions”. It would be appropriate to call them “modern samurai”, who went up against the innovation of the Japanese painting.
This exhibition will display works by these seven painters, who are also typical of Adachi Museum. We hope that you will enjoy to your heart’s content every work depicted by these regenerators of the art world.