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This work is supposedly inspired by Fukuzawa's trip to China in 1939, where he sighted a poor man living among the deserts Loess Plateau. The figure also reflects Fukuzawa's spiritual condition and a representation of the tragedy suffered by Chinese…

Surrealist landscape with an eye

A portrait of Lady Kusunoki, the wife Kusunoki Masashige.

The picture is from Kawada's book The Map (地図).

A landscape of Mt. Fuji rising from the mist alongside a crimson red sun in the sky. This painting is filled with nationalistic sentiment

An urban landscape of the Diet Building's surrounding area

Part of the "祖国への旅" series (Journey to Native Country), which depicts the journey of Japanese returning to their country after World War 2

Compared to Miyamoto's many war paintings, Hunger and Thirst is special in many ways. First, it wasn't commissioned by the military nor is it based on any specific military event or photograph. Miyamoto's conception for this painting came purely from…