Kasai Landscape

Tomitori Fudo was born in Tokyo. He studied at the Angado Gajuku art school under Matsumoto Fuko and, alongside senior pupils such as Imamura Shiko and Hayami Gyoshu, formed Sekiyokai, a progressive painting research society dedicated to innovation in Japanese-style painting. Following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, Tomitori moved to Ichikawa City, Chiba and focused on plein-air landscape painting. His works depicting the northern shore of Tokyo Bay, with the Nakagawa River running through it, capture the old-fashioned charms of the river, which were rapidly disappearing due to urbanization. In this painting, a stream with eye-catching ripples flows through the center of the composition, and boats on the river draw the viewer’s gaze into the distance. Light, decorative brushstrokes depict a rustic and beautiful scene. (M.N.)