Japanese Bamboo by Yamamoto Baiitsu Bottom Size:M - 50 x 70cm its pale light rippling across

its pale light rippling across dark water and casting long shadows through bare branches

nothing competing with the subject

more dispersed elements rising toward an open ground — the visual equivalent of a held note resolving into silence

letting the expressive intensity read exactly as intended — nothing softened

Japanese Bamboo by Yamamoto Baiitsu Bottom Size:M - 50 x 70cm its pale light rippling acrossJapanese Bamboo reflects the bird and flower painting tradition of Yamamoto Baiitsu, one of the most highly regarded Nanga (literati) painters of the Edo period, working from the Owari domain. Baiitsu combined ink wash with delicate colour washes and elegant, sinuous contours a style so accomplished that two of his works have since been designated Important Cultural Properties in Japan. Bamboo, a recurring literati subject, is rendered here with