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At the end of the Edo period, Kano Eigaku (1790-1867), the ninth school-master of the Kyo Kano School, created a series of paintings featuring gorgeous mountain scenery in the style of the famous court paintings created during the Qing Dynasty in China. However, according to studies of modern painting history, the ink-and-wash paintings (Suiboku-ga) by Eigaku and others at the end of the Edo period were not highly appreciated, and his works were largely ignored because the evaluation after the Meiji Restoration viewed Eigaku as showing too much of a modern taste in Chinese style. Also, the public's attention to Chinese culture was moving elsewhere. Since then, for more than a hundred years, Eigaku's landscape paintings in the Chinese style have not been reviewed for appreciation and have almost faded into obscurity. In this paper, the forgotten works by Eigaku as well as those by others from the Kyo Kano School, and some related works on Chinese paintings, are introduced to clarify the significance of the Chinese style landscape paintings created at the end of the Edo period. In addition, works by the Chinese painters, Yuan Jiang and Yuan Yao, who were active during the Qing Dynasty are also discussed. |
