This lacquer on paper scroll expresses the substance of a stark landscape reduced to its essential visual values – a shibui landscape. Shibui is the beauty of objects degraded through time. The image was created by using a flat hand tool, rather than a brush.
山水。江户 – 明治（19世纪）。漆画绢本立轴。质优。此画不是用毛笔而是用刮子之类的工具将漆涂在绢上画成。涩谷画派，手法简括抽象。
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