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Taikan also at this time, significantly, built upon a mode or style developed by Hishida Shunsô known as ''[[morotai|môrôtai]]'' (murky, or muddy, style), in which outline is dispensed with entirely; many of the works for which Taikan is most famous dispense with form entirely, not to depict purely abstractions, but employing fields of color, blending into one another (or fading into the unpainted background) to depict waves, mist, clouds, or the like.
Taikan also at this time, significantly, built upon a mode or style developed by Hishida Shunsô known as ''[[morotai|môrôtai]]'' (murky, or muddy, style), in which outline is dispensed with entirely; many of the works for which Taikan is most famous dispense with form entirely, not to depict purely abstractions, but employing fields of color, blending into one another (or fading into the unpainted background) to depict waves, mist, clouds, or the like.
The decline of [[calligraphy]] over the course of the Meiji period had a considerable impact upon ''Nihonga'' as well, as poetry and literary sensibilities began to become distanced from the visual arts, and painters came to include fewer, or briefer, inscriptions on their paintings.<ref>Morioka and Berry, ''Modern Masters of Kyoto'', 18.</ref> The centuries-old tradition of inscribing one's paintings with lengthy poetry or prose, producing a sort of back-and-forth relationship between text and image, gave way to an art form dominated exclusively by the image.
===The Second Generation: 1910s-1930s===
===The Second Generation: 1910s-1930s===
*Conant, Ellen (ed.). ''Nihonga: Transcending the Past''. The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1995.
*Conant, Ellen (ed.). ''Nihonga: Transcending the Past''. The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1995.
*Mason, Penelope. ''History of Japanese Art''. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. pp363-370.
*Mason, Penelope. ''History of Japanese Art''. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. pp363-370.
*Morioka, Michiyo and Paul Berry. ''Modern Masters of Kyoto''. Seattle Art Museum, 2000.
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