Furling the sails - Anton Otto Fischer, German-born American illustrator
Nezu Museum, Minami-aoyama, Tokyo, is home of a diverse collection of Japanese and Asian premodern art. Over 7,400 works are based on the bequest of an industrialist and tea practitioner, Nezu Kaichirō Sr.
Moritz Weinholdt Cover ARt for Jugend
"I am not afraid. I was born to do this" - Joan of Arc (January 6,1412)
速水御舟《牡丹（写生）》（山種美術館）。当館では御舟の本画に加え、草花を鋭い観察眼で写したスケッチを複数所蔵しています。御舟らしい慎重な線描で牡丹の特徴を的確に捉え、淡い色彩もまた本画とは異なる魅力を放っています。（山崎）
Colour woodblock print, oban tate-e. Nine portraits of the Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII; the first seven are from the play 'Date kurabe okuni kabuki', the other two are from the play 'Kanjincho', both produced at the Kawarasaki-za in the third month of Kaei 2 (1849). The parts (top, right to left) 1) Otoko-no suke Teruhide, 2) Nikki Danjo Saemon, 3) Hosokawa Shuri-no-suke Katsumoto, 4) Ashikaga Sakingo Yorikane, 5) the wrestler Kinugawa Tanizo, 6) Dote Datetsu, 7) Yashio, elder sister of Nikki Danjo, 8) Benkei, 9) in offstage clothes.
Elisa Mazzone
