Muyoku Koe Kumagai Shuichi Hyoden

[Machine Translation] Westernization and nationalism tossed Japan's modernization around like a tsunami. In the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa eras, when all of Japan was in a state of agony, Kumagai Moriichi was neither a pessimist nor a recluse, but rather lived his life in the ultimate "as it is" way. This unique biography of Kumagai goes beyond the framework of art to explore the mystery of a painter who lived in a realm beyond "Abnegation" by contrasting the state of Japan at that time with many of his contemporaries, including Soseki Natsume, Naoya Shiga, Kotaro Takamura, and Tsuguharu Fujita.

津波のように日本の近代化を翻弄した西洋化と国粋主義。明治・大正・昭和、全日本人がのたうちまわったその時代、厭世主義でも、隠遁でもなく、究極の「あるがまま」に自分を生き抜いた熊谷守一。美術の枠を超え、当時の日本の有り様、夏目漱石、志賀直哉、高村光太郎、藤田嗣治など多数の同時代人との対比とともに、「無欲」を越えた領域に生きた画家の謎に迫る異色の評伝。