Two carp swimming in a pool
Watanabe Nangaku was an outstanding pupil of Maruyama Ōkyo in Kyoto. From there he took Ōkyo’s new naturalistic style to Edo, where he taught for about three years between 1802 and 1810. He was an eclectic and versatile painter, particularly excelling in bijinga (pictures of beautiful women). He was most famous for his impromptu sketches but also earned a reputation for realistic and carefully brushed paintings of turtles and carp.
Details
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Title
Two carp swimming in a pool
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Artist/maker
Maruyama-Shijō School (active late 18th century - late 19th century)Watanabe Nangaku (1767 - 1813) -
Associated place
Japan (place of creation) -
Date
1801 - 1813 -
Material and technique
ink and light colour on paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
mount 36.2 x 55.3 cm (height x width)
painting 24 x 52.5 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Dr Michael Harari, from the collection of his father, Ralph Harari, 1981.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.5380
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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), supp. no. 84 on p. 229, illus. p. 229 fig. 84
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