Bambus unterm Schnee 雪の竹 | Hashimoto Gahō 橋本雅邦 | 1835-1908 Gold whose dress is provocatively red

whose dress is provocatively red and who reveals a lot of cleavage

But even if all these plants in the painting never bloom simultaneously

the delicate pink blossoms

there are elements of the ensemble that support the assumption that the Buddha figure

which is very common in warm regions of Asia

Bambus unterm Schnee 雪の竹 | Hashimoto Gahō 橋本雅邦 | 1835-1908 Gold whose dress is provocatively redHashimoto Gah was one of the avant garde figures of the late 19th century. The Meiji period began in 1868, a time of upheaval on a cultural, social, and political level. These were the years of an almost violent intrusion of Western civilization into an island nation that had decisively isolated itself from the outside world for 250 years and had been forced to open up by the Americans in 1854. In Japan, where painting had a magnificent tradition, the