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  • Six-fold screen depicting a roaring tiger (detail)
  • Six-fold screen depicting a roaring tiger (detail)
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Six-fold screen depicting a roaring tiger

  • Description

    Kishi Ganku was a noted Japanese painter of the late Edo period. He studied various styles of painting, including the Kano style and the bird-and-flower painting of Chinese artist Shen Nanpin, who visited Japan in 1731. Later, under the Maruyama-Shijō school of painting he developed his own realistic style, using short, choppy but elegant brush strokes to build up a dense picture, and founded the Kishi school. He painted portraits, landscapes, flowers, birds and animals, and is perhaps best known for his paintings of tigers. He may well never have seen a live tiger, but he is known to have owned a tiger skin.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    1749 - 1838
    Artist/maker
    Kishi Ganku (1749 - 1838) (artist)
    Kishi School (active c. 1750 - c. 1900)
    Material and technique
    ink, light colour, and gold on paper
    Dimensions
    open 170.1 x 376.6 x 1.7 cm (height x width x depth)
    closed 170.1 x 64.1 x 11.3 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    processed material › metal › gold
    Technique index
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting,
    miscellaneous equipment › screen
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2002.
    Accession no.
    EA2002.61.a

  • Further reading

    Katz, Janice, Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with an introductory essay by Oliver Impey (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), p. 15

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 23 April-22 September 2013, Manjū: Netsuke from the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Joyce Seaman, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), p. 58, illus. p. 58 fig. 31

Location

    • currently in research collection

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