The setting is Mt. Hiei, in Kyoto. In this work, straight photography appears to be used to emulate the composition of a traditional landscape painting. Kurokawa photographed it using a long-focus lens, having posed a man wearing a straw rain-cape and hat in a subtly beautiful stand of Japanese cedar trees shrouded in fog. His use of an open aperture also, however, simulated the effect of linear perspective in Western-style painting. This masterwork is a superb example of early-period Pictorialism in Japan, which espoused pictorial effects unlike those of the West.
- Collection of
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
- Title
- (Man wearing straw raincoat and bamboo hat, Mt. Hiei)
- Original title
- (蓑笠の男、比叡山)
- Artist Name
- KUROKAWA Suizan
- Year
- 1906
- Material / Technique
- Gelatin silver print on developing-out paper
- Accession number
- 10101803
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