The Seaside of Choshi on a Fine Day by

On a clear day at the edge of the Pacific, the white tower of the Inubōsaki lighthouse rises above a green headland while surf breaks white over the dark rocks below — this is The Seaside of Choshi on a Fine Day by the Japanese painter M. Hayashi, a bright open-air study of Japan's easternmost cape in the Western (yōga) manner.

Historical Reference

This plate reproduces The Seaside of Choshi on a Fine Day (銚子海岸の晴日) by M. Hayashi (林明善), shown at the Prince Shōtoku Memorial Art Exhibition (聖徳太子奉讃美術展覧会) — a major exhibition mounted by the Prince Shōtoku Memorial Society, first held in 1926 and again in 1930. The scene is Cape Inubō at Chōshi in Chiba Prefecture, the easternmost point of the Kantō plain, crowned by the Inubōsaki lighthouse, a 31-metre brick tower completed in 1874. Hayashi paints it in the yōga (Western-style oil) idiom that flourished in early-twentieth-century Japan: solid massing, bright daylight colour and a high vantage looking out over the open ocean.

About the Artwork

️ • From a rise behind the cape, the view gathers the keeper's quarters and red-roofed outbuildings clustered at the lighthouse's foot, a footpath curving across the grassy headland, and beyond it the rock-strewn shallows where the Pacific breaks into long lines of white. This reproduction preserves the painting's fresh blues and greens along with the patina of the surviving sheet — its toned mount, ruled borders and caption in Japanese and English.

Original Condition

A Journey Through Time

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Original archive scan. Folds, foxing, and patina preserved. Colours may vary slightly between screen and printer.

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