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Village Near Hachioji

Title	Village Near Hachioji
Artist	浅井忠　ASAI Chu
Date	1887
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	42.7×61.2
Classification	Paintings
Accession Number	JO199700001000
Summary	Asai was influenced by Fontanesi at the Kobu Bijutsu Gakko, and was the student who best inherited his teacher’s naturalist view. Even during the period when Western-style painting was not popular in Japan, he studied this poetic naturalism. Fontanesi, who had been influenced by the Barbizon school, was one of the top painters of his day in Italy and was revered by his students for both his character and painting skills. Asai’s Spring Field, exhibited at the first Meiji Bijutsu-kai exhibition held in 1889, was well received as an expression of his own realism, which was deep-rooted in the Japanese climate rather than merely following Fontanesi’s style. Painted two years earlier, this work is also a representative example of Asai’s early landscape paintings based on sketches created on the outskirts of Tokyo. The distant mountains and the row of houses lining the road from the foreground to the middle-distance reveal Asai’s unique expression, meticulous care in the arrangement of colors and composition, and keen attention to light.

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Native place	Edo (Tokyo)
Birth	1856
Dead place	Kyoto
Died	1907
Biography	He was born in Kobikicho, Edo, as the son of a retainer of the Sakura Domain. He first studied bird and flower painting under a literati painter. After studying English and Chinese learning, he entered the Western-style painting academy Shogido in 1876, and in the same year enrolled in the newly established Kobu Bijutsu Gakko (Technical Art School), where he studied under Fontanesi. Following Fontanesi's departure from Japan, dissatisfied with his successor, Asai left the school and formed the Juichiji-kai to continue his studies in Western-style painting. During this period, Asai developed the poetic naturalism he had learned from Fontanesi. He participated in the founding of the Meiji Art Society (Meiji Bijutsu-kai) in 1889, and the works he exhibited at their inaugural exhibition displayed his own unique realism. In 1900, he was ordered by the government to study Western painting in France for two years, producing numerous works in Versailles and Grez. His watercolors from this period show an inclination toward Impressionism. After returning to Japan, he moved to Kyoto to teach at the Kyoto Industrial Arts School, and in 1903, he established the Shogoin Painting Research Institute (known as the Kansai Art Institute after 1906), where he dedicated himself to guiding the younger generation.　Asai, who studied under Fontanesi at the Kobu Bijutsu Gakko (Technical Art School), best inherited his master's view of nature, carefully nurturing that poetic naturalism even during the bleak era of Western-style painting in Japan. Fontanesi, influenced by the Barbizon school, was a leading Italian painter of his time, and his artistic skill and character earned the deep respect of his students.

Village Near Hachioji

ASAI Chu