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.
Bees and flowering plants
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Description
The style of Kigyoku Tokuhō is influenced by the work of the Chinese painter Shen Nan’pin, who arrived in Nagasaki from China in 1731. Shen Nan’pin’s technique had its roots in late Ming bird-and-flower painting and was characterized by botanical accuracy, with a lightness of touch due to colour washes and a lack of visible outlines. Even though he was only in Nagasaki for two years, Shen Nan’pin had many students, whose work influenced future generations who spread this new form of realism in bird-and-flower painting throughout Japan.
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Details
- Date
- 1807
- Artist/maker
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Kigyoku Tokuhō (active c. 1807) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 36.5 x 55.5 cm (height x width)
painting 24 x 51 cm (height x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Dr Michael Harari, from the collection of his father, Ralph Harari, 1981.
- Accession no.
- EAX.5416
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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