Six-fold screen depicting a drinking tiger
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.
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Title
Six-fold screen depicting a drinking tiger
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Artist/maker
Kishi School (active c. 1750 - c. 1900)Kishi Ganku (1749 - 1838) -
Associated place
Japan (place of creation) -
Date
1749 - 1838 -
Material and technique
ink, gold paint, and light colour on paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
open 175.5 x 375 x 1.7 cm (height x width x depth)
closed 175.5 x 63.5 x 10.8 cm (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 2002.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA2002.61.b
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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), p. 15
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