Artist:
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signed Ryoshin
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Title:
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Crows and Cryptomeria
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Date:
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Momoyama period
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Medium:
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Ink on paper
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Dimensions:
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64 1/2 x 136in. (163.8 x 345.4cm)
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Credit Line:
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Bequest of Louis W. Hill, Jr.
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Location:
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Gallery 222
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Although a crow's cry is considered an ill omen in China and Japan, crows became a standard theme among Japanese artists from the 16th century onward. They may have been inspired by imported Chinese paintings of pa-pa birds (related to the mynah), but instead depicted more readily observable crows. In screen painting, a popular device was to pair a scene of raucous crows with a conversely quiet image of an egrets--the contrast heightened by the birds' coloration. Artists of the Hasegawa school, championed by the artist Hasegawa To_haku (1539-1610), specialized in the impressionistic handling of ink brushwork seen here in the sketchily rendered branches and pine boughs.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Ryoshin
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Nationality:
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Japanese
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Life Dates:
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Japanese
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Magpies on pine, blackbirds on grey or white.
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Creation Place:
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Asia, Japan, , ,
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Accession #:
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96.146.11
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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