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Photo: Eduardo Calderon
Pine Grove
Photo: Eduardo Calderon

Pine Grove

Datelate 1910s
Maker Tsuji Kako Japanese, 1870 - 1931
Label TextKyoto painter Tsuji Kako brings new vitality to a timeless subject by infusing his design of swaying pine trees with rhythm and movement. Here the symbolic association of the craggy old pine gives way to more decorative concerns. The highly stylized treatment recalls the decorative style of the Rimpa school, as well as the delicacy associated with the classic yamato-e tradition. The addition of the farmer in her indigo-dyed ikat robes injects an element of narrative into this highly-patterned and exquisitely-colored painting.
Object number2010.41.35
Photo CreditPhoto: Eduardo Calderon
Published ReferencesMichiyo, Morioka; Berry, Paul. "Modern Masters of Kyoto: The Transformation of Japanese Painting Traditions," Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1999, p. 165, illus. 40.
Credit LineGift of Griffith and Patricia Way, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions81 x 22 in. (205.7 x 55.9 cm)
MediumInk and colors on silk
Landscapes of the Four Seasons
late 1890s
Object number: 2010.41.11
Gathering of Chinese Women
Tsuji Kako
ca.1902
Object number: 2010.41.31
Tsuji Kako
1925
Object number: 2010.41.99.1
Thatched Cottage in the Willows
Tsuji Kako
mid 1910s
Object number: 2010.41.29
Tsuji Kako
Object number: 2010.41.99.2
Nakakuni Delivering an Imperial Request
Tsuji Kako
ca. 1901
Object number: 2010.41.28
Photo: Eduardo Calderon
Tsuji Kako
1907-8
Object number: 2010.41.37
Tsuji Kako
late 19th - early 20th century
Object number: 2010.41.96
Joy in the Garden
Tsuji Kako
1920-1921
Object number: 2010.41.25
White Heron Castle
Tsuji Kako
ca. 1919
Object number: 2010.41.27
Photo: Eduardo Calderon
Tsuji Kako
ca. 1915
Object number: 2010.41.36