Buncho's Philosophy for Mountain Landscape in Nihon-meizan-zue

Abstract

Tani Buncho was an artist who drew Nihon-meizan-zue, which was a collection of mounatain landscape prints.
We analyzed character of mountains which were Buncho's meizan, and criterion for judgement of “meizan”. The results are as follows.
(1) He selected original “meizan” which he saw really.
(2) He valued angle while he evaluated mountains as “meizan”
So his philosophy for “meizan” was to regard mountains as visual landscape.