大正5年（1916）に結成された金鈴（きんれい）社において、結城素明（ゆうきそめい）と平福百穂（ひらふくひゃくすい）は南画的な風景画、松岡映丘（まつおかえいきゅう）はやまと絵風の風景画を熱心に手がけていました。彼らの活動に大きな影響を受けた清方は、この頃から南画の手法で風景画を描くようになり、本作品には点を重ねて草叢（くさむら）や遠方の樹木を表現する「点苔（てんたい）」技法を用いています。

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Landscape (Pond) (ca.1919)
ink and pale color on paper; framed
45.8 x 30.5 cm

In the Kinreisha, formed in 1916, Yūki Somei and Hirafuku Hyakusui painted landscapes in the nanga style, derived from the ink paintings of Chinese scholar-painters, while Matsuoka Eikyū worked on landscape paintings in the yamato-e style. Much influenced by these activities, Kiyokata also tried his hand at the nanga techniques for landscape paintings around this time. In this work, he has used the tentai or moss technique of applying dots of ink to express the thickets and the trees in the distance.