Raku Tea Bowl and Snow on the Pine Tree (Mitsui Memorial Museum)

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Mitsui Memorial Museum Tokyo, Nihonbashi. Exhibition of annual New Year. Every year,  Maruyama Ohkyo's Snow on the Pine Tree is displayed.

The innermost of the four exhibition room, it was on display reverently. National treasure. However, probably because you are looking at many times in the photograph, there is no fresh surprise.

And white of the base, black charcoal and gold paint. Just the three colors, but drawn and pine two this big. No matter how you look at it, it appears later, as depicts the white of snow. Indeed, Okyo. Technology as well, I feel a sense of as a painter.

On the right hand immediately, rice hemp cotton diagram of Ohkyo same. To use only a line of ink, and here, depicts the simple rice, hemp, and cotton.

Since ancient times, as a tree that God come down, pine, have been treated specially. During the Edo period, it would have been considered as auspicious.

To the left, by the Edo Kano school, the number of stupid picture god of longevity, such as the Seven Lucky Gods people. Mystique of landscape painting as the original is lost, nothing but, in the middle, and human activities, landscape view of the Four Seasons by Kano Eishin of the 19th century, is depicted in humorous naturally.

By Cyoiro of generations, the number of people easily bowl. It's spectacular from primary long Jiro, up to 15 generations of modern, comfortable bowl of just this and line up. However, most of them, a black and vessel. If you are not familiar very much, able to tell the difference even difficult.

However, in the works of first generation Cyojiro, black music bowl of Senno Rikyu was named Shunkan, and a large-sized little, black glaze black more. Indeed, unlike the black music of other bowl, this is, feel the presence of just tremendous.

As an exhibition related to Cyojiro, was drawn in the 16th century of the Momoyama period, Jurakudai figure screen. Founder and a Cyojiro had been active, folding screen picture drawn in the same era. Also clouds of gold leaf, the state of cloud is expressed in fine irregularities.

If you look at the well approached, the figure in the castle, to expand the kind of lunch box, such as those taking a lunch, of such people up, had been finely drawn.