Stillleben – Kürbisförmige Sakeflasche und Pilze | Shibata Zeshin 柴田是 | 1807-1891 Gedicht This was not common in

This was not common in a Japanese middle-class house of that time—only imposing villas had such rooms

the blue of the surround ( chūmawashi ) is a shiny sky-blue silk that underlines the elegance of the painting

In such black-and-white ink painting

elegant Rinpa picture

In his time

Stillleben – Kürbisförmige Sakeflasche und Pilze | Shibata Zeshin 柴田是 | 1807-1891 Gedicht This was not common inShibata Zeshin was the greatest lacquer artist of the 19th century. His lacquer objects have been priceless treasures for a hundred years. He was the son of a sculptor and was apprenticed to a lacquer painter at an early age. But then he studied painting intensively with great masters in Kyoto. In 1890 he officially became a court painter. As a painter, Zeshin always made it clear that he was a master of urushi e (lacquer painting). The sharp