Dragon and Tiger

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Gantai

  • Edo period, 19th c.
  • color and gold leaf on paper
  • pair of six folding screens

Paintings – Japanese / Asian Paintings

Gantai, who learned painting from his father Ganku, acted as a central figure in the Kyoto painting world and the successor to the founder of the Kishi school, specializing in paintings of tigers and also peaceful Shijo School style paintings. He participated in the fusuma painting of the Imperial Palace, and this pair is one of them. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)

  • Dragon and Tiger
  • Right screen
    Right screen
  • Left screen
    Left screen

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Title/Name Dragon and Tiger
Other Title/
Name
Artist/
Creator
Gantai
Period/Era Edo period
Century 19c.
Quantity pair of six folding screens
Dimensions
Material/
Technique
color and gold-leaf on paper
Signature/
Inscriptions
Accessories/
Contents
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Origin
Excavation
Site
Related
Place
Kyoto Toyama Ishikawa
Provenance
Collection
No.
SZK002489
Category PaintingsJapanese / Asian Paintings
Cultural
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Dragon and Tiger

Dragon and Tiger

Gantai, who learned painting from his father Ganku, acted as a central figure in the Kyoto painting world and the successor to the founder of the Kishi school, specializing in paintings of tigers and also peaceful Shijo School style paintings. He participated in the fusuma painting of the Imperial Palace, and this pair is one of them. (「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.1」2003)