Sailing the Blue Wave (cropped)

Today is our last day of the special month with the Fukuda Art Museum's collection. We hope you enjoyed it!

Hishida Shunsō was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter from the Meiji period. He played a role in the Meiji era innovation of Nihonga—a Japanese style of painting that typically uses mineral pigments, and occasionally ink, together with other organic pigments on silk or paper. His real name was Hishida Mioji. He was also known for his numerous paintings of cats.

Between 1903 and 1905, Shunsō traveled to India, America, and Europe to study.  Exposure to Western painting greatly affected Shunsō's art and this is one of the examples. In traditional Japanese painting, these would have been outlined. Shunsō, however, has created the entire scene by manipulating color gradations.

Please note that the masterpiece we present today is a very long scroll; we had to crop it so we could present it to you in our app, sorry for this!

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