JJ198800002000_000000_001T, 0000/00/00撮影, Public Domain

Fishing Village in Early Spring

Title	Fishing Village in Early Spring
Artist	小茂田青樹　OMODA Seiju
Date	1921
Medium	color on paper
Dimensions	74.0×112.0
Classification	Japanese-style Paintings
Accession Number	JJ198800002000
Summary	During his career, Omoda moved from a brilliantly colored literati style influenced by Imamura Shiko to a more decorative style inspired by the Sotatsu-Korin school. When he was rejected by the Inten in 1919, he retreated to the country, living briefly in Sayama and then in Izumo, where he developed a new style based on direct sketching. One result of this determined effort was “Port of Ezumi in Izumo,” which paved the way for his membership in the Inten. The painting shown here was also a product of this period of intense study in Izumo. It was included in the solo exhibition of 1921 in which Omoda displayed the results of this period. A diagonal division from the upper right separates the land area from the sea and sky. The ridges of the thatched hipped roofs and the dark triangles of the small gable ends provide effective formal accents to the composition. After a hard winter, the fishermen are busily repairing their nets. Flowers are blooming in the fields. The delightful atmosphere of early spring in a fishing village, bathed in warm, soft sunlight, is captured in muted colors.

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Native place	Kawagoe, Saitama, JPN
Birth	1891
Dead place	Zushi, Kanagawa, JPN
Died	1933
Biography	Omoda was born in Saitama Prefecture. He went to Tokyo to study painting under Matsumoto Fuko at age 17. In 1913, with the patronage of Hara Sankei, he took up temporary residence near Nanzen-ji Temple in Kyoto with Hayami Gyoshu and Ushida Keison. The next year he organized the Sekiyo-kai with Imamura Shiko and adopted the painting name Seiju. After being rejected for the 6th annual Inten in 1919, he moved to Sayama in Saitama Prefecture, where he sketched and painted with renewed energy. The next year he went to stay with a friend in the town of Matsue in Izumo (Shimane Prefecture). In 1921, his “Port of Ezumi in Izumo,” a highly detailed painting executed with Western-style painting techniques, was accepted for the 8th Inten, and Omoda was elected a member of the group. In 1929 he became a professor at the newly opened Imperial Art School (today’s Musashino Art University). His style became more decorative, and his “Insect and Fish Scroll,” shown at the 18th Inten in 1931, showed this new tendency. He died in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, where he had gone to recuperate from tuberculosis.

Fishing Village in Early Spring

OMODA Seiju