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Two carp swimming in a pool

  • Description

    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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    Associated place
    Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    1801 - 1813
    Artist/maker
    Watanabe Nangaku (1767 - 1813) (artist)
    Maruyama-Shijō School (active late 18th century - late 19th century)
    Material and technique
    ink and light colour on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 36.2 x 55.3 cm (height x width)
    painting 24 x 52.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    paper
    Technique index
    painted,
    painted,
    painted,
    painted,
    brush drawing
    Object type index
    fan-painting,
    painting,
    calligraphy,
    fan-painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Dr Michael Harari, from the collection of his father, Ralph Harari, 1981.
    Accession no.
    EAX.5380

  • 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. 84 on p. 229, illus. p. 229 fig. 84

    Hillier, J., The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and Drawings, copyright owned by Michael Harari, 3 vols (London: Lund Humphries, 1973), no. 331 on p. 556, illus. p. 558 fig. 331

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