Tomonoura
Author: Shigeru Ohki
Purchase price: 140,000 yen (tax included)
Size of work: F10 (530 x 455 mm)
Frame dimensions: 620 x 540 x 60 mm
[Work description ]
It depicts Tomonoura, a port town in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture.
It is said to be the most beautiful port town in Japan and faces the calm Seto Inland Sea.
It is a warm piece that gives off a sense of nostalgia, as if time is passing slowly.
[Artist description]
Shigeru Ooki
A Western-style painter who was active in the Hiroshima art world before the war (died in 1979 at age 80)
After the war, he painted the Atomic Bomb Dome many times, continuing to convey the horrors of nuclear weapons with his paintbrush.