hanging scroll;
painting
- Museum number
- 1942,0509,0.8
- Title
- Object: Teikan zu 帝鑑図 (Pictures of Model Emperors)
- Description
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One from a set of eight paintings, hanging scrolls originally mounted as a folding screen. Scenes at the Chinese court illustrating the deeds of virtuous and wicked emperors; based on the Chinese book 'Dijian tushuo' ("Illustrated Model Emperors"). Ink and colour on paper.
1. Emperor in carriage
2. Emperor and lady musician on horseback
3. Imperial Audience
4. High officials holding tablets before Emperor
5. Ceremonial hoeing
6. First Qin Emperor carried in palanquin, with ship behind
7. Emperor and Empress
8. Books being bought.
- Production date
- 1700 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 177 centimetres (Full scroll)
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Height: 114 centimetres (each)
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Width: 50.80 centimetres (each)
- Curator's comments
- 'Dijian tushuo' 帝鑑図説 (Jp: Teikan zusetsu), by the Ming scholar Zhang Juzheng 張居正 (1525-82), was published with illustrations in 1572, and presented to Emperor Shenzong 神宗 (Wanli Emperor, r. 1572-1620). It contained 81 stories of virtuous rulers, and 36 of wicked emperors. The book reached Japan by the end of the sixteenth century, and Toyotomi Hideyori (1593-1615) had it copied and republished in 1606.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibition History:
2017-2018, 10 Nov 2017 - 18 Feb 2018, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai, India, India and the World: A History in Nine Stories
2018, 6 May- 30 June, National Museum, New Delhi, India and the World: A History in Nine Stories
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Teikan zusetsu
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Associated Title: Dijian tushuo
- Acquisition date
- 1942
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1942,0509,0.8
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.Add.158 (Japanese Painting Additional Number)