EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY MODERN JAPANESE ARTISTS

APRIL 11, 1923 MAY 9, 1923

THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY THE FINE ARTS PHILADELPHIA

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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FI E ARTS

FOUNDED 1805

CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY

MODERN JAPANESE ARTISTS

PHILADELPHIA 1923

This Exhibition has been rendered possible by the kindness and courtesy of

YONEZO OKAMOTO

FOREWORD

Writing his friend, Baron Kaniko of Tokio, Japan, Theodore Roosevelt, then President, said "A marvelous progress has been made in the relations of Japan with Occidental nations. Fifty years ago, you and I and those like us, could not have travelled in one another's countries. We should have had very unpleasant and possibly very dangerous experiences. But in these present times, gentlemen, all educated . people, members of profes-sions and the like, get on so well together that they not only travel in each other's country, but associate on the most intimate terms. Among the friends, whom I especially value, I include a number of Japanese gentlemen. My dear Baron, the business of statesmen is to try constantly to keep international relations better, to do away with causes of friction, and secure as near ideal justice as actual conditions will permit. "

This exhibition goes a step further than negatively removing causes of friction of which President Roosevelt wrote; it positively creates a binding cord of friendship and esteem in bringing to us a knowledge of the art soul of Japan. For art is universal; it knows no boundary; it recognizes no race; it is catholic in soul. And so it is that an insight into the art soul of our transpacific neighbor, where a delicacy of touch has visioned itself on the white purity .of a silken field, tends to a new appreciation, a sincere respect and a recognition of the fact that there is something fine and fair in a people that can voice and visualize its inward and spiritual soul in such outward and visible beauty.

I venture, therefore, to think that in affording the American public this opportunity to look into the very core of the Japanese soul-for art is the index of a nation's inner life-the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is not only diffusing knowledge and deepening an appreciation of the beautiful but it is doing an act of wise international statesmanship in fostering the spirit of Peace and Good Will with our transpacific neighbor

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whose art comes to us in the beauty, simplicity and delicacy of the work of Seiho and his brother artists of Japan who seek to save and perpetuate the dignity and worth of Japan's own art unmixed with and uninfluenced by the art of other lands and other peoples .

Believing, as I do, that the peace of the world at large will largely rest on peace on the Pacific and that peace on the Pacific largely rests on Japan and America, I believe these representative Japanese artists in coming ' and this representative American Academy in welcoming that coming have woven a transpacific bond of art that will deepen and broaden mutual knowledge and mutual respect in Japanese-American relations. To have any part in such work is a high privilege and a great honor to artists and Academy alike.

PHILADELPHIA, April 7, 1923.

JosEPH BuFFINGTON, Senior United-States Circuit Judge,

Third Circuit.

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INTRODUCTION

"All of the Arts which belong to humanity," Cicero says, "have a certain common bond," and the time will soon arrive when all the world will recognize that bond. Art is a universal language which every nation on earth can understand. It can therefore be judged by universal standards. Its purpose is the same now as it has always been. The means employed to express that purpose may differ, but the esthetic motive is the same.

Fenollosa, the great student of Oriental Art, says: "All Art is harmonious spacing under special technical conditions that

vary. The spaces must have bounds, hence the union of harmonious shape with proportion. The eye follows the bounds, and the hand executes them, hence line, which then becomes the primary medium for representation. The relative quantities of light which they reflect to the eye become another differentiation in the spaces, and the harmonious arrangement of these values involves a new kind of beauty (Notan) and a new faculty to create ideas in terms of Art. Lastly comes the quality of light or color, which at the hands of one born with the faculty, is capable of endless dif-ferentiation and creative grouping. "

Kakki, a Chinese artist who died in the 1 Ith Century wrote, "The Ancient Sages," said that, "A poem is a painting without visible shape, and a painting is poetry put into form."

This old precept is probably more applicable to the art of painting in Japan, than in any other country. While in China we have convention with great beauty of line, and in Persia and Indo-Persia remarkable truth of feeling, the essential characteristic of the work of the Japanese artist is poetry. We may find realism, individuality, remarkable imagination, great depth of feeling, and unity of design, or we may not, but we always find poetry. He is a master of rhythm. His lines, spac~s, and colors accord, and are as true to each other as the notes of some sweet melody or great musical composition. His work is not to be looked at merely. It is to be seen, felt and heard.

JoHN FREDERICK LEwis.

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JAPANESE PAINTINGS

1. "Emperor 'Engi' " 2. "ldsukushima Shrine" 3· "Goddess of Idsukushima" 4· "Cockscomb"

"Hideyoshi"

By AIKIU (MATS OKA) "

By BAKUSE (TSUCHIDA) By CHOSHIU (0SADA) 5·

6. "A Parrot's Paradise" 7· "Evening's Approach" 8. "AGirl~

By GENGETSU (YAZAWA) G..,_~ By GIOKUDO (KAWAI)

By GIOKUJO (MASUDA) 9· "Pheasant and Flowers" By Go N ( ISHIMURA)

xo. "The Bamboo and Plum Blossoms" By HAKUHO (SHINODA) II. "Cherry Blossom Time" 12. "Lake Biwa" 13. "The Flowers" 14. "A Landscape"

A--~'1 15· "Finish-ing Her Letter" x6. "Bird on a Maple Spray" 17· "Bird's Eye View of 'Shiobara'" 18. "Miyazima" 19· "Empress 'Komio' " 20. "Miss Innocence" 21. "Genroku Period" 22. "lnamuragasaki" 23· "Nara Period" 24· "Kagekiyo Taira" 25- "Knights on the Trail" 26. "The Camellia" 27. "Morning Glories" 28. "A Rabbit"

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By HAKURIO (HASEGAWA) By HANKEl (TOMITA) By KEIGETSU (MATSUBAYASHI)

" By KEIGETSU (KIKUCHI) By KEINEN (IMAO) By Kiozo (ENoo)

" " By KINSEl (HATAEYAMA) "

By KIUHO (NODA) By KOKIO (TANIGUCHI) By KoRIO (TAKEI) " "

By KouN (ITo) By KuB Tsu (OTANI) " " " " "

29. "Hollyhock" By KuBUTSU (OTANI )

JO. "Mount 'Fuji' " 31. "Bamboo and a Nightingale" 32. "Sparrow on Rice Straw" 33· "In Winter's Grasp" " 34· "A Crane" 35· "Wild Roses" 36. "White Fowl" By K uBuTsu (OTANI)

37· "Tree Peonies and Butterfly" By KwAGAKU (MuRAKA iVII)

38. "Mother Monkey" By KwANSETSU (HASHIMOTO)

39· "Buddhist Apostle" By KwANZAN (SHIMOMURA)

40· "Ranzan" By lVIASAJ IRO (KANa)

41. "'Yoro' Waterfall" By lVIASAMI ( I wATA)

42. "Mountain Waterfall" By RAI SHIO (TANAKA)

43· "Pine Grove of 'Miho' " 44· "Twilight Calm" 45· "On Watch" " 46. "Empress' Komio' " By R EIKA (KIKKAWA)

47· "lshiyama" By RIUKO (TSUTAYA)

48. "Songster on a Bamboo Spray" By SEJHO (TAKEUCHI)

49· "Crows and a Persimmon" " so. "Bumble Bees and Poppies" sx. "A Fisherman's Haven" 52. "At Peace" " 53· "Thinking It Over" 54· "At Home" 55· "Barnyard Fowl" s6. "Iris" 57· "Twilight and Homeward Bound" " s8. "Sparrows on the Wing" 59· "Rat and Lantern" 6o. "Just a Pup" 6x. "Birds and Loquat Tree" By SHIHO (SAKAKIWARA)

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62. "Dove and Pomegranate Tree" 63. "Kimasa Kato" 64. "Blue Birds and Cherry Blossoms" 65. "Wild Ducks and the Moon" 66. "Yokobue (Takiguchi Niudo)" 67. "Listening to the Cricket" 68. "Pine, Bamboo and Plum"

· 69. "Pagoda in the Pines" 70. "Maiden Fair" 71. "Arashiyama" 72. '.'Murasaki Shikibu" 73· "Autumn Flowers" 74· "Tiger King" 75· "Snowy Heron" 76. "Viewing the Cherry Blossoms" 77. "Miyazima Shrine"

By SHIOJI (KOIJUMI)

By SHIOKOKU . (IKAI)

By SHIUHO (IKEGAMI)

" " By SHIUKO (YOSHIDA)

By SHIUSHIO (TAKAGI)

By SHIUZAN (HIDA)

By SHOKO (KAWASAKI)

By SHUNSUI (NAGATA)

By SorcHr (HmoKAWA)

By SOME! (YUUKI)

By SursEKI (HASHIMOTo)

By S UISHIO (NISHIYAMA)

By TADAO (YOSHIMURA)

78. "Flowers and Bird" By TAISEI (MrzuKAMr)

79· "Tomoegozen (Wife of Yoshinaka Kiso) the Japanese Nightingale" By TENSHIO (TANAKA)

So. "In Quest of Fair Lady" By ToMONE (KOBORI)

81. "Maples and Pines" By TAMOTSU (TAKAGI)

82. "Genroku Girl" By SHIOEN (KAMIMURA)

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EMPRESS KOJIIIO. BY REJKA (KIKKAWA ).

RAT AND LA "TERN . BY SE lli O (TAK EUCH I).

BARNYARD .FOWL. ny SE!RO (TAKEUCHI).

EMPEROR ENGI. BY AIKIU (MATSUOKA).

TREE PEONIES AND BUTTERFLY. BY KWAGAK U ( MUR AKAMI) .

IR IS. RY SEIHO (TAKEUCHI).

AT HOME. llY EJHO (TAKEUCHI).

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T\V ILl GHT A ' 0 HO~!E\VAR!J JJOUND. BY SEIHO (TAK EUCH I) .

SPARROWS ON THE WI KG. BY SEIHO (TAKEUCHI).

BUMBLE BEES AND POPPIES. BY SEIHO (TAKEUCHI).

PH EASA NT AN D FLO WERS . BY GOU N ( N ISHIMURA) .

WHITE FOWL. BY KUBUTSU (OTANI).

MOTHER MONKEY. BY KWANSETSU (HASHIMOTO).

JUST A PUP. BY SEIHO (TAKEUCHI ).

CROWS AND A PERSIMMON. BY SEIRO (TAKEUCHI).

WILD DUCKS AND THE MOON. BY SHIUHO (IKEGAMI) .

PI NE GROVE OF MIHO. BY RAISHIO (TANAKA) .

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A FISHERMAN'S HAV.EN, llY SEIHO (TAKEUCHI),

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SONGSTER ON A BAMBOO SPRAY. BY SElliO (TAKEUCHI).

EVE N I N G'S APPROACH. BY GIOKUDO (KAWAI).

ON WATCH. BY RAISHIO (TA N AKA).

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/ COCKSCOMB. BY BAKIJSE N (TSUCHIDA ) .

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