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Buddhist Rite of Scattering Flowers

Title	Buddhist Rite of Scattering Flowers
Artist	村上華岳　MURAKAMI Kagaku
Date	1939
Medium	sumi and color on paper
Dimensions	68.0×32.3
Classification	Japanese-style Paintings
Accession Number	JJ199600003000
Summary	This work was displayed in the Shoka-kai New Japanese-style Painting Exhibition held at Nihombashi Takashimaya from November 9 to 12, 1939. Kagaku died of an asthma attack on the 11th. While suffering from asthma, Kagaku based his life on the principle that “creating paintings is praying in a sealed room.” His concentration on painting enabled him to create a series of works that were intense expressions of his spirit and technical skill. Kagaku limited his subject matter to landscapes, peonies, camellias, and Buddhist subjects. He conducted an ongoing internal dialogue with these subjects as he gave birth to a purified realm of the heart and spirit. Kagaku was quite weak by the year of his death, and although his concentration had declined somewhat, this work shows a high degree of spiritual concentration in its severe yet flexible lines and lightly applied colors. It is a superb representation of Kagaku’s inner world, clearly filled with richness and purity.

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Native place	Osaka, JPN
Birth	1888
Dead place	Kobe, Hyogo, JPN
Died	1939
Biography	Kagaku was born in Osaka. His original name was Takeda Shin’ichi. He was adopted by his aunt’s family and assumed the Murakami name. He studied at the Kyoto Municipal School of Fine Arts and the Kyoto Municipal School of Painting. He entered “Donkeys and Summer Wildflowers” in the 2nd Bunten exhibition in 1908 and “A Scene in February” in the 5th Bunten exhibition in 1911, receiving prizes for both works. After studying kabuki, bunraku, and ukiyo-e, he developed an interest in Buddhist art. His “Amitabha” and “Two Attendants,” entered in the 10th Bunten exhibition in 1916, earned a special mention. Dissatisfied with Bunten judging, he formed the Kokuga-sosaku-kyokai with Tsuchida Bakusen, Ono Chikkyo, and others. These artists sought a fusion of Asian and Western styles, and Murakami displayed such major works as “Kiyohime Crossing the Hidaka River” and “Nude Woman” in the group’s exhibitions. He developed asthma in 1921 and retired to Ashiya in 1927. Breaking all contact with the art world, he spent his final years alone, working on his paintings and creating a series of Buddhist subjects and landscapes noteworthy for their mystical spirituality.

Buddhist Rite of Scattering Flowers

MURAKAMI Kagaku