Boat under the Moon
Nagasawa Roshū 長澤蘆洲 Japanese
Not on view
A turbulent sea, a rocky foreground, and layers of fin-shaped mountains receding into the background are the principal pictorial elements of this painting. A boatman poles his vessel past the dangerous current and foreground rocks. Roshū, student and adopted son of the renowned and individualistic artist Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754–1799), whose works are exhibited nearby, demonstrates his skill with the brush as well as a sense of drama, perhaps encouraged by his untrammeled teacher. Roshū was an artist in the refined Maruyama-Shijō tradition, to which his adoptive father had initially belonged but later renounced; this painting contains only hints of Rosetsu’s vigorous and dynamic mature style.
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