Kalligrafie „Banzai“ (万歳) gemalter Kiefernzweig mit Schössling | Matsumura Goshun 松村呉春 | 1752-1811   Gold and the green foliage is

and the green foliage is elegantly grouped around the magnificent blossoms

They quite obviously form a canopy

at the turn of the last century

the pink of the blossoms – subtly set off – corresponds elegantly with the red morning sun

two pheasants are sitting

Kalligrafie „Banzai“ (万歳) gemalter Kiefernzweig mit Schössling | Matsumura Goshun 松村呉春 | 1752-1811   Gold and the green foliage isMatsumura Goshun occupies a very important place in Japanese art history. He was a student and later a collaborator of the outstanding painter Maruyama ky (1733 1795). Together with him, he founded the Shij School in Kyoto, which shaped the aesthetics of painting in the old imperial capital throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Goshun is primarily known as a painter, but good painters were usually also excellent calligraphers. This calligraphy