Small Eggplants and Wild Strawberries
小茄子に野苺図
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- Ink and colors on Japanese paper
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Split eggplants and a mock strawberry
Small eggplants split open with ripeness and a mock strawberry stretching out its runner, painted in Hokusai's late seventies. Both forms — the split fruit, the reaching vine — carry the passage of time within them. The Freer Gallery of Art in Washington holds a work on the same motif.
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Supervised by Yoshihisa Endo, Representative Director, Japan Art Academy
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