Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Watanabe Shōtei
(1851– 1918)
 
Watanabe Seitei (渡辺 省亭), also known as Watanabe Shōtei, was a Japanese Nihonga painter who was one of the first Japanese painters to visit Europe, attending the 1878 International Exhibition in Paris and being awarded a medal. He blended Western realism with the delicate colours and washes of the Kikuchi Yōsai school, introducing a new approach to kachōga (bird-and-flower painting). 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watanabe_Shōtei


Bird on a branch
1916
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, United States

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