The sun., 1910-07-10
Old J4PiNESE ART.
Hsw IN. Great Masters learned.

The japanese art ists tried TO communi-
rats rirh the souls Of the nature. then
paint out their feelings But hr-t of All
they practt-ed the handling Of the brushes
This exercise Was the most important thlh<
for them Perhaps Iapane-e or 'hlne-s
are most Skilful about a. b@'A'lse We NI''r
letters With br,Ishe- and from four or h'e
year, Old Ns all practise 70 Use the orushe-
There u the formal way how 10 hold 'he
brushes and how to draw When they
become quite sktIful they feel the up OF the
brush is their own hand
Then their ambition - 20 draw out tue
souls on the paper
For instance look at the monkey oy NO.
sen lie Nas tho specialist of monkey In
his daily life he used 20 initiate monkey
and his manner wa- eTActly like monkey
Ne felt himself a. II he was monkey Inc
readers viii zee his monkey a. the exhibition
and find out how well he caught the feeslnS
Of monkey
Ny father used to tell me a most interest
ing story about q famous artist when ! Nas
child UnfortunAtely the artists name
l. not In my memory nov However. 'hat
arts, wAs 80 esthstic and he was very
poor. lie visited the temple in kAmAEura
The priest welcomed him and promiaed the
artist that he would receive him a. hts hon
orable guest a. long a. he liked II ne would
execute a pseture for the prie~t Ihe Artls'
SAs delighted and stayed IN the temple
Half year passed but the artist had done
nothing All the disciples began to com
plain TO the priest. saying. That artist y
40 lazy and not worth of keeping him any
longer The priest paid no attention 10
their complaints one evening tho-e dts
clple. went near the artist 8. room and looked
inside through the shot To their surprise
the artist "a quite undre--ed and dancing
in front of . candle. and watching his own
shadow on a screen They hurried TO their
master priest and told him that the artist
must BE- mad. The priest only smiled.
After a few days the artist informed the
priest that his picture wAs done 80 the
priest and all the Disciples went 20 the art
ists room 10. eight cranes on a screen
Every one OF them had such lively move
rnent a. II they were going ~ get life ana
come out from the screen. The priest Ap-
preciAted them so much. hut remembering
what the discipIss told him the priest I'M
dressed h i'm self and said 20 the artist. lho-e
cranes are Just like this. and he danced
The artIst vas quite pale in his great dts
appointment and exclaimed DO tho-e
cranes look Ike human" The priest sin
cerely apoloEized to the artist. and told
him all what the diaciple- Informed MIN
but in fact tho~e cranes we're most excel
lent The next day the artist disappeared,
and the priest knew not where he vas gone,
Evidently the artist began 10 wander
about quite pennIle@- and he travelled some
nfty miles and came across a fr tree MS
tree was so like the one he painted by the
side Of tho~e cranes. but IL had one branch
more than hi- picture and II looked 30 much
better The earnest ArtLst walked back
ATTY miles 10 the temple. and watching TIL
the priest and all the disciples we're not IN
that room he stole himself into the room
and added the one branch on his mr. tree
and ran away.
There are many traditions in japan that
KAno'- horse got life and escaped from the
screen and ate the grasses on the palace
garden. OF Okyo's tiger Jumped out from
the screen and gave q great trouble TO the
people These are only the traditions. but
IL IL . fact that II one paints something with
full feeling. that feeling u actually realized
by the people who look At II. ENen little
leaf of a bamboo. n the artist painted With
aad feeling. it looks sad. am talking this
from the rule Of energy In some OF those
old pictures the artists potentialiEed all
their feelings. and whenever you look at
them the potential enerGy will become into
active and give you some feeling y hIch the
artist put in some hundreds years ago.
Certainly Okyo must have watched
waterfall day after day. until he felt as II
he himself were water: then he indicated
his feeling on the silk Nith hi- brush Look
at the falling, He eft the whole space en-
tirely untouched with the brush. but there
IL the decided feeling OF the mas Of water
falling down rapidly Then Underneath
the water strikes a black rock. Here the
artist forgot himself lie never hesitAted
70 think how the water must look like TO
our eyes. lie refused to paint the water
a. objective hut he himself " the water
now. his most eloquent brush u ever still
moving. and telling Us 4 Am the ~aterl-
Okyo was q son OF quite . Sommon farmer
In TAmba. not very far from KiOto. By
birth he was fond OF painting when he
was q little child he used to follow after
his parents TO the rice fields. and While his
parents we're working he always drew some
birds or animals on the sand with q piece
Of wood lie hated 20 become q farmer so
his parents sent him TO temple in his VII
lAxe but he woudni become a disciple OF
the priest either His parents were 50
anxious about his future They came to the
conclusion TO send him TO Kioto and make
him a SAmurAi There Was a druggist IN
hiS-yillage. Okyo drat picture Of a pine
tree on q bag OF some drugs One dAy a
samurai came to this druggist and saw
that bag The Samurai thought that draw
Kioto and presented hun to the noble
DAimyo Kameyama The Daimyo admired
Okyo yerv much and kept him
since then okyo devoted all hts time for
the art study He became a pupil Of Ishida
\ utei. a famous artist then. When he vas
Ss years old he copied a picture by Te-shun
kyo "a great artist IN China Even the
most expert critic could not tell Which Vas
the original aud which the copy
soon after that he travelled hack from
! kioto TO his home. and on his Nay he PASSED
the Mouat Oye. where he saw some water
! falls. rapids and many wonderful rocks
lie stayed in the mountains three dAys to
study Then Il happened that the DaImyo
Kamsy ANA ~ Anted him 10 paint on a golden
screen. So he painted all those views VhAt
he saw In the Mount Oye These were most
wonderful pictures
one day he painted q picture Of chic kens
and he contributed that picture to the tenn
pie Gion lie was 80 eager 10 hear the pub
tic criticise 80 he disguised himself a. 4.
farmsr and ioitered about the temple sSery
day one day an old farmer came and look ed
AZ he picture lie sighed deeply and said
Hos pity such a great artist doee not
know chickens at ali Okyo chased after
the old farmer TO the latters house and
begged him 80 earnestly TO teach him
The farmer said he had been feedins
chickens for soms forty year,. and he knew