Shiba Kokan, A Meeting of Japan, China, and the West, Late 18 - early 19th century, ink and color on silk, 188.6 × 61.6 cm

Shiba Kokan, A Meeting of Japan, China, and the West, Late 18 - early 19th century, ink and color on silk, 188.6 × 61.6 cm Edo period is very interesting as the way they depict fire in each painting. The white and black Musashi Abumi way of drawing fire was rather not much prominent, the looming disaster from behind and not being able to see the building shows how there is no such thing as ‘path’. On the other hand, the scroll by Koushun shows the fire as a smoky and looming death that creates ashes in its path. But this drawing is very big and bright and seems to be much more prominent than the other two. Yet the surrounding people seem to be calm and almost confident that they will be able to put off the fire. The new method of putting out the fire seems to be good teaching and a recovery way of trying to deal with any more big fires (since the Great fire was during 1657).