Meise auf Ginster | Tanaka Nikka 田中日華 | ?-1845 format:46cm x 189cm He worked in the realistic

He worked in the realistic tradition that goes back to Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-1795)

Yamamoto Shunkyō—one of the most important ink painters of the early 20th century—Ichiyō learned to wield the power of the large brush

the sort that the refined Ōkyo would never have sought to achieve

but in the south of Japan there are also dark red plum blossoms

who was the artistic guiding force of the Shijō school

Meise auf Ginster | Tanaka Nikka 田中日華 | ?-1845 format:46cm x 189cm He worked in the realisticTanaka Nikka is a renowned painter who trained in the prestigious Shij school in Kyoto. His works hang in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The motif is quite unusual. The small bird is neither a nightingale nor a sparrow, as they are often depicted on flowering branches, but probably a tit. The yellow broom is also a rather rare floral motif. Upon closer inspection, one recognizes the master's masterful arrangement of