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Lot Essay
Terasaki studied both Chinese and Japanese painting and, although influenced by Western styles, his work springs primarily from traditional sources as evident in this rain-cloaked mountain landscape. He taught at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts with Okakura Tenshin (1862-1913) and was a founding member of the Japan Art Institute (Nihon Bijutsu-in).
This painting is related to his set of Landscapes of the Four Seasons exhibited in London in 1910 (see Office of the Imperial Japanese Government Commission to the Japan-British Exhibition, An Illustrated Catalogue of Japanese Modern Fine Arts Displayed at the Japan-British Exhibition (Tokyo: Shimbi Shoin, 1910), nos. 38-41.
This painting is related to his set of Landscapes of the Four Seasons exhibited in London in 1910 (see Office of the Imperial Japanese Government Commission to the Japan-British Exhibition, An Illustrated Catalogue of Japanese Modern Fine Arts Displayed at the Japan-British Exhibition (Tokyo: Shimbi Shoin, 1910), nos. 38-41.