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Utopian Landscape
- Museum No.
- AK387
Photo No：288-7064-1
Color type：Color
| Title | Utopian Landscape |
|---|---|
| Designation | |
| Artist | Tomioka Tessai |
| Category | Painting (A), Early Modern Painting, Landscape Painting |
| Country | Japan |
| Period | Meiji |
| Century | 20th |
| Year | 1904 |
| Quantity | |
| Materials | |
| Dimensions | (Each) Height 170cm Width 365cm |
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| Signature/Seals Etc | |
| Donor | Yokoyama Iwao |
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Togen was a mysterious region, found in a mountainous area by a fisherman in Wuling in the Taiyuan Period in the Jin Dynasty. Penglai was an imaginary island under the sea where fairies were supposed to live. Tao Yuanming's poems, “Taohuayuanji” on Taoyuan and “Yunjiqiqian” on Penglai are put on top of the picture.
Tessai studied many paintings of this predecessors. His ideal was “to read thousands of books and to walk thousands of miles,” and he made a variety of works using a variety of sources. Strokes of ink and colors look to be piled up over the picture. It was painted when Tessai was 69 years old and is one of the great masterpieces of the literary artist' style of modern days.
Japan-Meiji