Autumn Mountain at Evening

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Tazaki Soun

  • Meiji period, Dated 1882
  • color on silk
  • hanging scroll

Paintings – Japanese / Asian Paintings

Tazaki, learning the sketch painting style of various schools such as the Shijo School or united Schools of Nanshu and Hokushu, was not satisfied with stereotyped landscape expression of the Nanshu painting, and groped the possibilities of unique landscape depiction from an early stage. Also in this work, he attempted novel composition in which the foreground and middle distance as a main part of the picture with widely arranged trees of colored leaves and haze around them. It is one of the important works of the early Meiji era which shows the possibility of Nanshu style landscapes based on a modern consciousness toward sketching. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)

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Title/Name Autumn Mountain at Evening
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Tazaki Soun
Period/Era Meiji period
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Quantity hanging scroll
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color on silk
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Tochigi
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SZK002989
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Autumn Mountain at Evening

Autumn Mountain at Evening

Tazaki, learning the sketch painting style of various schools such as the Shijo School or united Schools of Nanshu and Hokushu, was not satisfied with stereotyped landscape expression of the Nanshu painting, and groped the possibilities of unique landscape depiction from an early stage. Also in this work, he attempted novel composition in which the foreground and middle distance as a main part of the picture with widely arranged trees of colored leaves and haze around them. It is one of the important works of the early Meiji era which shows the possibility of Nanshu style landscapes based on a modern consciousness toward sketching. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)