"It's amazing to express human deep psychology wonderfully" Yamashita
Yuji Yamashita (Yujita Yuji), who is an expert in art history, continues to preach the appeal of Japanese art with a friendly narrative and a fresh cut. Mr. Yamashita talks about the rising popularity of Wakatsuki as follows.
"Originally, Wakatsuki was great, but Japanese people since the Meiji period have spent nearly 100 years without being aware of that loneliness, which led him in the 2000" 200 Years After Death "exhibition. When the images of the works began to circulate, it became clear that everyone could find this picture to be ugly without the expert's small and difficult explanation. " 
Mr. Yamashita, who marks 2000 as Wakatsuki's first year of reunion, shocked that "Elephant" from Mr. Price, which became an icon at the "Happiness" exhibition at Roppongi Hills in 2003, and further started Tokyo in 2006 "Wakatsuki's popularity has reached a boiling point" in the "Price Collection-Wakasu and Edo Painting" exhibition, which has traveled all over the country and mobilized an audience of more than 820,000.
"In that sense, it is extremely appropriate that the" Price Collection "exhibition, with a focus on Wakatsuki, be held again this year in 2013, wishing for the reconstruction of Tohoku, is a very proper flow, and it is very pleasing." 
Wakasa's work that says that Mr. Yamashita likes such is one width in "Iki-e-Kotoe (Doyoukusai)". "This 'Roman chart' is the most sober of the 30's. It's not a color nor flashy, it has a few motifs. But this picture is one of the deepest human beings who are dying. I think it is an amazing work that depicts the psychology of 
Mr. Yamashita says that she often saw a dream that in the early childhood, many people were trying to get on a ship like a spaceship, but they could not get on alone, and that they would fall into space alone. "Man will have a deep psychology of fear of such a fall. This picture will bring to mind the moment when I saw that feeling of fear," said Wakasu's work from a psychological point of view. It says that analysis should be done.
"More on this picture I want you to notice is a depiction of the moist snow that clings to the branches! There is no other picture that expresses the snow that is about to melt away so wonderfully. Such a weight of snow We are only expressing Wakatsuki, "he taught me the beauty of Wakatsuki. 
Yamashita Yuji
Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, art historian. His specialty is ink painting from the Muromachi period, but he sends ale to Japanese art in general. He is also an editorial board member of the Complete Works of Japanese Art.
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