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Sou Akou's cherry blossoms and a hybrid of Chinese and Japanese painting

Written: May 2023

Editorial summary; the original text is available in Japanese.

The journalist relates the three-dimensional quality that Matazo Kayama saw in Sou Akou's cherry blossoms to Hasegawa Kyūzō's Cherry Blossoms, and introduces the heavy-colour, White Beloved, Impression Nippon and Ikebana series and his teaching.

Full text in Japanese: 美術ジャーナリスト 永田 晶子