painting;
handscroll
- Museum number
- 1902,0606,0.12
- Description
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Painting, handscroll. Giga (comic pictures). Subjects from Chinese and Japanese classics, together with traditional animal caricatures, each theme being parodied. Ink and colour on silk. Signed and sealed.
- Production date
- 17thC(late)-18thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 31.20 centimetres
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Width: 509.10 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Hizo Nihon bijutsu taikan Vol 2
Kano Chikanobu (1660-1728), eldest son of Tsunenobu of the Kobikicho Kano school, succeeded his father as third head of the school in 1713. Here, he draws his subjects from Chinese and Japanese classics, together with traditional animal caricatures, each theme being parodied in an amusing fashion that is unusual for a member of the Kano school. Seen as a whole, the scroll is a succession of unrelated subjects probably intended to provide models for copying.
Within the Kano school, this tendency toward parody seems to date from Tan'yu's pictures of, for example, three of the Gods of Good Fortune dancing, and also the humorous depictions of ghosts in, for example, the 'Bakemono zukan' (Illustrations of Ghosts) by Kano Tsunenobu. The 'Hyakki yako emaki' in the Shinjuan, Daitokuji, mentioned in the caption to Plate 46, is another work that was also copied by generations of Edo Kano artists, who thus kept going the school's admittedly weak tradition of parody.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1902,0606,0.12
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.657 (Japanese Painting Number)
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Other BM number: Anderson No. 1590 (annotation in Anderson 1886)
