Fireworks at Ikenohata by Kobayashi Kyochika Size:M - 50 x 70cm Taguchi Tomoki reduces a lake

Taguchi Tomoki reduces a lake scene to its essence — muted tones

The scene turns an everyday domestic object into a designed visual statement

This fruits and vegetables plate arrays its subjects across the composition with the organised confidence of a collector's cabinet: each specimen isolated enough to be identified

arrangements that balance tension with calm

Fireworks at Ikenohata by Kobayashi Kyochika Size:M - 50 x 70cm Taguchi Tomoki reduces a lakeFireworks at Ikenohata captures a Meiji era Tokyo night in a burst of light and spectacle. Kobayashi Kyochika applies his kosen ga technique the fusion of traditional ukiyo e composition with Western chiaroscuro to render the fireworks as explosive blooms of light against a deep, atmospheric sky. Figures silhouetted along the water's edge anchor the scene, lending human scale to the drama above. The landscape orientation creates a broad, cinematic