Mt.Penglai (Mountain of Immortals)

Mt.Penglai (Horai-san) is the subject that Tessai favored throughout his life. This work, which was produced in his later years, is reminiscent of rural Japanese landscapes; the mountains are low and gentle, the aromatic plum blossoms are in bloom, and the cranes are playing. This may be the ideal world that Tessai, who had read numerous books and had walked far and wide, finally found. Interestingly, the poem in the picture, "mountains are like Horai, people are like hermits," seems to express Tessai's feelings at that time.