Genjin Sugihara, a Japanese-style painter, led the Japanese art world from the 1980s. He was famous for presenting his work to the Imperial Family.

Genjin Sugihara used ultramarine “sumi” (ink) a lot, so it was representative of his work. Therefore it is very rare for him to use colorful paints like this work. Unlike his other paintings that convey a sense of awe for nature, this piece has a calm and warm sense of nature. Its blue sky is painted like a Western painting, and the deep mountain valleys express inaccessibility. We sense the sunshine and our eyes are naturally led to the mountain reflected in Lake Taishou by the increasingly bright hue of the mountain greenery from the back to the foreground. This conscious sense of his for line is fantastic. We can see from this work that he understood the advantage of a painting in color.