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伊藤若冲画 「乗興舟」|Happy Improvisations on a Riverboat Journey
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伊藤若冲画 「乗興舟」|Happy Improvisations on a Riverboat Journey

Itō Jakuchū

ca. 1767

Medium

Handscroll; woodblock print; ink on paper

Tags

LandscapesRivers

Dimensions

11 3/16 x 39 ft. 7/16 in. (28.4 x 1189.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975

Classification

Prints

Department

Asian Art

Culture

Japan

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Rights

Public Domain

About Itō Jakuchū

1716–1800 • Japan

Painter and printmaker of the Middle Edo period. He studied the methods of the Kanō School, but soon became dissatisfied and began to turn to the works of the Chinese masters of the Song and Yuan periods for inspiration. He believed the true art of painting lay in the faithful representation of nature, excelling in depictions of plants and animals. His work is distinguished by bright colors, decorative patterns, and intense attention to detail.

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