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Shinobazu Pond

Title	Shinobazu Pond
Artist	高橋由一　TAKAHASHI Yuichi
Date	ca. 1880
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	67.0×97.2
Classification	Paintings
Accession Number	JO199500005000
Summary	Tenkai, a Tendai priest who was highly favored by Tokugawa Ieyasu, established Kanei-ji Temple in Ueno in 1625 (Kanei 2). He likened Shinobazu Pond to Lake Biwa and the island in the pond to Chikubushima, where he enshrined Benten. As a result, Shinobazu Pond became a popular scenic spot in Edo and was frequently depicted by artists of the city, including Utagawa Hiroshige. Shiba Kokan and Odano Naotake, two early Western-style painters whom Yuichi admired, also created superb works depicting the pond. Fontanesi, the Italian painter who greatly influenced Yuichi, came to Japan in 1876 to teach at the Kobu Bijutsu Gakko and is thought to have favored this area for sketching. This view of the Bentendo from the southern bank of Shinobazu Pond is thought to be the “Ikenohata Evening Scene” (“Sinobazu Evening Scene”) exhibited at the monthly oil painting exhibition held by Tenkai-sha in August 1880. The lightly pink-tinged clouds, the willow branches swiftly brushed as if shivering in the wind, and the skillful handling of perspective all testify to Yuichi’s training under Fontanesi. While part of the lineage of images depicting this famous scene, the work also heralds the birth of modern Japanese landscape painting.

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Native place	Edo(Tokyo), JPN
Birth	1828
Dead place	Tokyo, JPN
Died	1894
Biography	Takahashi was born in Edo as the eldest son of a samurai retainer of the Sano domain in Shimotsuke Province, present-day Tochigi Prefecture. He initially studied in the Kano school, but during the Ka’ei era (1848–1854), he turned to Western-style painting after seeing Western-made lithographs. According to one account, this occurred in Bunkyu 1–2 (1861–62). In 1862, he entered the painting section of the Bansho Shirabesho, or Shogunal Institute for Studying Western Learning, where he studied under Kawakami Tōgai; meanwhile, in 1866, he also studied under Charles Wirgman. In 1873, he established his private art academy, Tenkairo, where he taught the next generation of artists. He also held monthly exhibitions, showing such representative works as “Oiran” and “Salmon.” From 1880 to the following year, he created oil paintings to be dedicated to Kotohira Shrine. Later, he produced a series of landscapes depicting the Tohoku region, including “Yamagata Cityscape.” He was a pioneer of modern Japanese Western-style painting who also devoted himself to the dissemination of art through publishing art magazines and petitioning for the establishment of art museums.

Shinobazu Pond

TAKAHASHI Yuichi