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Unfolding Nature: Images of Summer on Chinese and Japanese Fans

(from 10th Jul until 7th Oct 2012)

Enjoy the summery scenes on fan paintings from the Chinese and Japanese reserve collection.

Detail of Praying mantis, bee, and prunus blossom, by Chen Fen, China, 1881 (Museum No: EA1966.200)
Crickets with bellflower and beach chrysanthemumfront

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Crickets with bellflower and beach chrysanthemum

  • Description

    Studies of plants are common subjects both for artists working in the Nanga style of Chinese literati ink painting, and for those trained in the Maruyama style, which emphasized sketching from life. Tani Bun’ichi trained in both styles, first with his father, Tani Bunchō, and later with the Maruyama School painter Watanabe Nangaku. Examples by both artists can be seen in this exhibition [EAX.5387, EAX.5380].

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1800
    Artist/maker
    Tani Bun'ichi (1787 - 1818) (artist)
    Maruyama-Shijō School (active late 18th century - late 19th century)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 36.5 x 55.5 cm (height x width)
    painting 24.2 x 52.6 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    paper
    Technique index
    painted,
    painted,
    painted,
    painted,
    brush drawing
    Object type index
    calligraphy,
    fan-painting,
    fan-painting,
    painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Dr Michael Harari, from the collection of his father, Ralph Harari, 1981.
    Accession no.
    EAX.5406

  • 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. 73 on p. 225, illus. p. 225 fig. 73

    Hillier, J., The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and Drawings, copyright owned by Michael Harari, 3 vols (London: Lund Humphries, 1973), no. 305 on p. 538, illus. p. 539 fig. 305

Glossary

Nanga

Past Exhibition

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    • currently in research collection

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