Summer in Ikaho.
The view from a corridor leading to the Kankai Pavilion is spectacular.
You can enjoy the highland breeze and the landscape of Mount Akagi.
Currently on view at the Kankai Pavilion is an exhibition
on the theme of animals, featuring ink paintings.
Kano Eitoku, Tiger in a bamboo grove, four hanging scrolls (detail), Momoyama period
The tiger is staring at a little bird, in a menacing posture…
but with his mouth partly open in a kind of loose grin.
Lin Dengke, Fish and waterweeds, pair of hanging scrolls (detail), Qing dynasty
↑ Unbelievable posture.
↓ Humorous facial expression.
Other animals include horses and birds. Please come and look for various expressions of animals.
Also on view is Sketch of Yodo River (hand scroll, Edo period) by Maruyama Okyo.
It is a very long scroll that stretches some 17 meters, depicting ships that travel from Fushimi in Kyoto to Tenmabashi in Osaka, with the landscape on both banks of the river. The modern viewer raised on the Western system of perspective will feel a sense of uniqueness in the sketch’s moving point of view, spatial expression and other devices that give this work many stimulating contrasts with artworks of our own era.