Nishigaki Fukou - “Covered Wagon at Tottori Sand Dunes” - vintage Japanese painting on shikishi
Vintage Japanese painting on shikishi by Nishigaki Fukou, depicting a covered wagon at the Tottori Sand Dunes.
The reverse inscription dates the work to spring 1995, gives the title “Covered Wagon”, and names Nishigaki Fukou with Sogakai noted in parentheses. The front inscription refers to the Tottori Sand Dunes and bears the artist’s Fukou signature and red artist seal.
Nishigaki Fukou, 1917-2005, was a Japanese nihonga painter from Iwami, Tottori. He studied under Kobayakawa Shusei and was connected with the Sozo Bijutsu, Shinseisaku, and Sogakai line of modern Japanese painting. His work often drew on the landscapes, folklore, and regional culture of Tottori and Inaba.
Fukou served as a judge for city and prefectural exhibitions in Tottori, received the Tottori Prefecture Cultural Merit Award for Japanese painting in 2004, and his works are recorded in the collection and exhibition materials of the Tottori Prefectural Museum of Art.
The subject of the Tottori Sand Dunes belongs to Fukou’s long-standing interest in his native region. This late, compact work connects landscape, local memory, and the regional culture of Tottori.
The reverse inscription dates the work to spring 1995, gives the title “Covered Wagon”, and names Nishigaki Fukou with Sogakai noted in parentheses. The front inscription refers to the Tottori Sand Dunes and bears the artist’s Fukou signature and red artist seal.
Nishigaki Fukou, 1917-2005, was a Japanese nihonga painter from Iwami, Tottori. He studied under Kobayakawa Shusei and was connected with the Sozo Bijutsu, Shinseisaku, and Sogakai line of modern Japanese painting. His work often drew on the landscapes, folklore, and regional culture of Tottori and Inaba.
Fukou served as a judge for city and prefectural exhibitions in Tottori, received the Tottori Prefecture Cultural Merit Award for Japanese painting in 2004, and his works are recorded in the collection and exhibition materials of the Tottori Prefectural Museum of Art.
The subject of the Tottori Sand Dunes belongs to Fukou’s long-standing interest in his native region. This late, compact work connects landscape, local memory, and the regional culture of Tottori.