Garden of Sympathy

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Kojima Torajiro

  • Meiji period, 1907
  • oil on canvas
  • painting

Paintings – Oil Paintings

Awarded the highest prize at the exhibition for this work purchased by the Imperial Household Ministry, Kojima received an allowance to study in Europe from his sponsor, a businessman named Ohara Magozaburo, as a result. In the composition making full usage of his favorite soft backlight effect, he depicted an ill orphan and his anxious friends surrounding him with a warm touch. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.2」2003)

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Title/Name Garden of Sympathy
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Kojima Torajiro
Period/Era Meiji period
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canvas oil painting
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Okayama Okayama Miyazaki
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SZK000147
Category PaintingsOil Paintings
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Garden of Sympathy

Awarded the highest prize at the exhibition for this work purchased by the Imperial Household Ministry, Kojima received an allowance to study in Europe from his sponsor, a businessman named Ohara Magozaburo, as a result. In the composition making full usage of his favorite soft backlight effect, he depicted an ill orphan and his anxious friends surrounding him with a warm touch. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.2」2003)