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White Herons in Rain

雨に白鷺図屏風

1910s
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Panel: 169 x 372 cm (66 9/16 x 146 7/16 in.)
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A Kyoto-based artist, Setsuden was awarded a medal at the sixth Ministry of Education Exhibition (Bunten) in 1912 for a two-panel folding screen also featuring the theme of birds in rain.

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In this composition, Fujii Setsuden used a color palette that borrows from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, European art movements of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pair of screens is an example of nihonga, or “[modern] Japanese painting.” The terms nihonga, which indicates works in ink and mineral pigments, and yōga, or “Western-style [oil] painting,” were developed in response to the rapid influx of information about European painting and culture that became available to artists in Japan from the mid-1800s. One goal of nihonga was to reinterpret Japanese styles and formats to correct for a perceived lack of relevance to modern sensibilities.
A pair of six-panel folding screens depicts a continuous landscape scene in ink and color on a muted gold background. On the top screen, a thick, textured tree trunk rises near center-right, its gnarled branches extending toward our left where three white herons perch. The bottom screen features dense clusters of pale green leaves and spindly, intertwining branches. Thin vertical lines mark each individual panel throughout this expansive, golden, and atmospheric composition.

White Herons in Rain

1910s

Fujii Setsuden

(Japanese)
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912) or Taishō period (1912–26)

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