Landscape of Yamate (Yokohama)
山手風景（ヨコハマ）
- Birth Year
- 1927
- Death Year
- 2017
- Date
- 1996
- Technique, Material, Format
- oil on canvas
- Dimension
- 102.0 x 130.3 cm
- Donor name
- Mr. Matsuki Rojin
- Category
- Oil or Other Painting by Japanese Artist
- Inventory Number
- 2018-OJ-006
With a fork in the road in the foreground and a hot-air balloon floating in the sky, this image seems to exude a magical atmosphere. The building in the center with the crucifix is modeled on the Kuyper Memorial Auditorium, which still stands today at Ferris Girls’ Junior & Senior High School in Yamate, Yokohama. The artist is Matsuki Rojin, who was born in Hokkaido and is said to have burned many of his own paintings in 1964 as an abrupt departure from his early "red period," in which he had used mostly muted brown colors. About five years later he began the "white period" that is exemplified in this painting. As Matsuki himself explained, his landscapes with prominent white buildings were influenced by the milky white color seen in Léonard Foujita’s paintings of nude women.
(MINAMISHIMA Ko)