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The beauty of the Winter Landscape
Yamamoto Ryudo
(1844-1913) Born in Shinshu Iida clan (Now Nagano) as the clan's
educator, Fujii Tenryu. Learns Tosa style from Yamamoto Gyoou, and
Late Northern style and conducting research on the Southern style.
He was very skilled in Bird and flower themes and Buddhist subjects.
Although he he specialised in Buddhist art and kacho-ga he was not
successful as a Japanese painter and he left Tokyo to return to his
home in Nagano.
It is in Nagano that he did this style of painting to make ends meet. In this painting the house is covered in deep snow with the bamboo bent with the weight of the snow, almost ready to break. There is a haystack in the front with a few sparrows searching for some food in this very cold winter. I wonder if he was referring to his own situation when he composed this beautiful painting Quite a memorable rendition and a story that is very poignant as he passed away a little after painting this scroll of what is probably his family farm during the very cold mountain winter of 1912. Nagano is known as the Roof of Japan. Nine of the highest peaks in Japan can be found here in this truly inland prefecture which is the furthest point of any prefecture from the ocean. Japan hosted the Winter Olympics here.
Mountain House in Snow 76x22 Ryudo with box. £175
Gito Shibata, 白川芝山. Pupil of Go Shun 1752-1811 the founder of the Shijō school of Kyoto Shibata Gitô was
born in Bizen and moved to Kyoto, where he became a student of Matsumura
Goshun (1752-1811), the founder of the Shijô school of painting. Soon he
became an important member of this school, specializing in landscapes
and kachôga. His early
death prevented him from becoming more widely known and from becoming as
famous as Matsumura Keibun and Okamoto Toyohiko, the other two most
prominent members of the Shijô school. The
signature reads 'Gitō sha' ('Painted by Gitō') Pictures of Flowers and Birds (Kachoga) took as its main subjects birds, grasses, and flowers. Some focused only on grasses and flowers, while in others insects such as cicadas, bees, and butterflies appeared in place of birds. There were in fact a large number of sub-types, including some that depicted animals like dogs, rabbits, or deer, in combination with flowers or trees. This scroll with box is £475
Signature from a Gito Scroll in the British Museum
Signature of this later scroll The
signature is essentially the same
Snowscape: Signed as Seishun, Seal seems like: Suisho yuu ? or "The place near the water is seen (or appears) faintly" 37.5cm by 184cm / 14.7" by 72.4" £180 including original artists box
Cedar in Snow Sansui Ga A superb image of snow dusted cedars . Tori Gates to a temple looking down from high in the valley Inc Box £190
Winter landscape 2 houses 1952 £195
Winter Farmhouse in deep snow. Painted around 1900. A really lovely painting around 60 inches high when restoration has been completed. Interesting because although this is a winter image, it has been painted in warm colours to , perhaps, say that while cold outside everything is warm and cosy inside. I found this 19th century kimono Silk in a pattern that I believe is very harmonious for the scroll and which we used to cover a box to fit this beautiful Scroll and is only £185 Painting signature says Yasuyuki. The Seal says Hogetsu. Yokoo Hogetsu (1899-1990) Nihonbashi Signed and sealed Hogetsu Hanging scroll; ink, color on silk signed, sealed and titled by the artist . Hogetsu was born in Hakata City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He studied Shijo- school painting first under Nishimura Sobun. In 1917 he moved to Tokyo to study beauty painting under Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921), a pupil of Kaburagi Kiyokata (1878-1972). Hogetsu participated in Teiten, Nitten and Shin-Nitten exhibitions. While mainly a painter of Japanese Ladies he also did other subjects occasionally. This seems to have a alternative name he must have used when painting other subjects(Yasuyuki-Yokoo)
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