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Description
Chō Gesshō first studied with Matsumura Goshun, founder of the Shijō School in Kyoto, but in 1798 he moved to Nagoya. There he assisted the unconventional painter Nagasawa Rosetsu on a project in Nagoya castle. The literati artist Tani Bunchō, who was in Edo working for the shogun’s family, begged him to come and work there, but he eschewed the fame it could bring him, preferring the provincial life of Nagoya. He specialized in figures, bird-and-flower paintings and illustrations for printed books, especially brief haiga illustrations to accompany haiku poems.
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- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Aichi prefecture › Nagoya (probable place of creation)
- Date
- early 19th century
- Artist/maker
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Chō Gesshō (1772 - 1832) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 40.5 x 55.5 cm (height x width)
painting 22.7 x 48 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Ashmolean, and Mr and Mrs J. Hillier, 1973.
- Accession no.
- EA1973.39
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Further reading
Katz, Janice, Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with an introductory essay by Oliver Impey (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), cat. supp. no. 9 on p. 203, illus. p. 203 fig. 9
Past Exhibition
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Unfolding Nature: Images of Summer on Chinese and Japanese Fans
(from 10th Jul until 7th Oct 2012)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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