Japanese Art and Kawabata Gyokusho

Japanese Art and Kawabata Gyokusho

Lee Jay Walker

Modern Tokyo Times

Kawabata Gyokusho (1842–1913) was born beneath the waning lantern light of the late Edo Period and departed this world as the early Taishō era was taking its first breath. His artistic soul, however, reached full flowering during the Meiji Period (1868–1912), an age defined by rupture, reinvention, and the quiet struggle between inheritance and transformation.

At the remarkably young age of eleven...