Taikan Yokoyama’s first work of art that brought him fame is called Selflessness (see appendix A). He created this in 1897 and it is currently in the Tokyo National Museum. Selflessness is color on silk and measures 56 ¼ x 43 ¼ in. It shows a young boy at the waterside, wearing a wide-sleeved, oversized kimono in the Heian period (782-1185). Taikan studied the pattern and cut of the kimono for the Heian period. The willows were drawn using a traditional technique while the bright coloring and innocent