From the Collection: Where There is Light (The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura)

(Translated by Google Translate)

If you are walking the approach of the long cobblestone towards Kamakura, to Tsurugaoka Hachiman Temple, come see the sign of the museum always to the left.

Mismatch in the precincts on behalf of Japan, the historic shrine, that there is a museum of modern art is really good.

These have been held, by the work of the museum collection, exhibition of modern and contemporary paintings of Japan. Able overview of the Meiji era, the history of foreign film in Japan, it was the exhibition of interesting content.

If you look at the work of the early Meiji era Enoshima diagram of Takahashi Yuichi, at Cluny Museum of Goseda Yoshimatsu, such as still life, Matsuoka Hisashi, to understand the painting techniques of Europe, how to absorb it, a world of their own appearance of their How do I draw, are struggling come to mind.

Landscape Wan Tetsugoro is, painted in 1910, but landscape painting traditional, but in nude woman drawn in 1918, the style of painting changed at all, is in the style of painting of the so-called Wan Tetsugoro style.

Tainan landscape of Fujishima Takeji is, of works which depict the landscape of Taiwan was a colony of Japan at that time. It's casual landscapes, and Fujishima, and he tried to capture warm tropical, the landscape open-minded, and suggests that the situation of the era at the time.

Work called Trump Uchida Iwao is in the Trump family around the table, which is not a picture of a feeling that bright in any way, and hue, from the expression of the family, it is to give less-than-subtle anxiety and reading. In 1934, this picture was drawn, was in 1934.

Other, rare self-portrait Still Life Zushi landscape of Kuroda Seiki, Koide Naoomo, landscapes Kishida Ryusei, of Yuzo Saeki, Atami Nojima villa of colorful Umehara Ryuzaburo, such as building, Matsumoto Shunsuke, the Japanese works of great masters of modern foreign film was exhibited.