Kazuyuki Futagawa - Winter Scenery at Oirase (奥入瀬冬景)

"Winter Scenery at Oirase" depicts the snow-laden forest along the Oirase Gorge in Aomori, northern Japan—a subject Kazuyuki Futagawa has returned to throughout his career as a defining personal theme. Painted in mineral pigments on paper in the Nihonga tradition, the work captures the hushed atmosphere of deep winter through delicate gradations of blue-grey and ivory. Dark trunks rise through veils of fresh snow, their slender branches reaching across the composition, while the gentle curve of a dark, mirror-like stream balances the dense vertical rhythm of bare trees. Trained under the celebrated Nihonga master Ikuo Hirayama at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Futagawa is recognized as a leading realist landscape painter of his generation. The painting bears the artist's brush signature and red square seal at the lower left, and the original frame retains the artist's hand-inscribed paper label on the reverse.

Artist: Kazuyuki Futagawa (Japan, 1954-)

Year: 1954-2026

Medium: Painting

Materials: Mineral pigments and ink on washi paper (Nihonga)

Classification: Unique

Size: (H)27.5cm, (W)41.0cm. Framed: (H)50.0cm, (W)63.5cm, (D)6.2cm

Signature: Brush signature and red square artist's seal at lower left. Artist-signed paper label with title and signature affixed to the back.