The Lyrical Brush of the Mori School In the vibrant, shifting landscape of nineteenth-century Japan, few artists captured the delicate balance between tradition and a burgeoning sense of lightheartedness quite like Mori Ippō. Born in 1798 in the region of Yoshida, Banshū, Ippō emerged from the Iwasaki family, but his destiny was inextricably linked to the prestigious Mori lineage. As the pupil and eventually the adopted son of the est…