Yamanaka Yukito settled in Yokohama after World War II and worked there for the rest of his life. The Inten Exhibition run by the Nihon Bijutsuin was his primary forum for exhibiting his art. Although he had been raised in a Buddhist temple, he developed a strong interest in Buddhist art only after seeing the Buddhist ruins at Borobudur in Indonesia. In the 1970s, he traveled across Asia visiting Buddhist sites and making religious paintings imbued with dignity and grace. For three successive years in the mid-1980s, his Buddhist paintings won the Nihon Bijutsuin Award at Inten. This painting was shown at Inten the following year. Its motif is the sculpture Shaka Triad (Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, and his two attendant bodhisattvas), a registered National Treasure located in Horyuji Temple’s Main Hall. Rendered with precise and economical lines, the Buddhist figures radiate a serene divinity combining dignity and depth, and the subdued, gold-tinged image is infused with a soft light throughout. (YATSUYANAGI Sae)
Yamanaka Yukito settled in Yokohama after World War II and worked there for the rest of his life. The Inten Exhibition run by the Nihon Bijutsuin was his primary forum for exhibiting his art. Although he had been raised in a Buddhist temple, he developed a strong interest in Buddhist art only after seeing the Buddhist ruins at Borobudur in Indonesia. In the 1970s, he traveled across Asia visiting Buddhist sites and making religious paintings imbued with dignity and grace. For three successive years in the mid-1980s, his Buddhist paintings won the Nihon Bijutsuin Award at Inten. This painting was shown at Inten the following year.
Its motif is the sculpture Shaka Triad (Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, and his two attendant bodhisattvas), a registered National Treasure located in Horyuji Temple’s Main Hall. Rendered with precise and economical lines, the Buddhist figures radiate a serene divinity combining dignity and depth, and the subdued, gold-tinged image is infused with a soft light throughout.
(YATSUYANAGI Sae)