The history and art surrounding Buddha, £9.99
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Height: 290.000 mm
Width:
682.000 mm
Asia JA JP 1927 (1881.12-10.01036)
Views of Mount Fuji
Haruki Nammei, Mt Fuji from Edo Bay, a hanging scroll painting
We look past a collection of sea-going cargo-ships towards Tsukuda and Ishikawa Islands, with the shoreline of Edo Bay to the right and snow-covered Mt Fuji in the distance. A solitary cormorant perches on the tip of one of the masts, which dips down in a V-shape in inverted complement to the slopes of the mountain.
Nammei was a highly eclectic artist of the late Edo period. Here he has depicted Fuji using a 'boneless' (mokkotsu) style, with washes of ink and colour.