Mizu-nomi no Torah Zu
The picture Mizu-nomi no Tora ( Japanese 水 呑 み の 虎 , Mizu-nomi no tora , German "water-drinking tiger") was painted in 1782 by the Japanese painter Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795).
description
The work is 96.5 cm high and 141 cm wide and shows a tiger in a crouched pose licking water on a river. The background of the picture is completely reduced, only the tiger itself is worked out in great detail, the river is only hinted at.
The whereabouts of the picture after 1928
The painting was considered lost for over 80 years after it was last listed in an auction catalog in 1928. It was only confirmed as the original in January 2013 by Asaka Shimomura, the curator of the Otani Memorial Art Museum in Nishinomiya . The picture is now open to the public again and was shown in the exhibition of the museum “Tora, Tora, Tora” (Eng. “Tiger, Tiger, Tiger”) from April 6 to May 19, 2013.
Comparable pictures
The painter had used a similar motif in the Tora no ma (Eng. "Tiger Room") on a Fusuma in the Kotohira-gū shrine.
There is also a Fusuma with the same name Mizu-nomi no tora , painted by Kanō Tan'yū , which was designed in the Kanō style in the Nanzen-ji temple in Kyōto .
Web links
- Shinya Murase: Missing for 80 years, 18th-century tiger painting is on display
- Otani Museum website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 円 山 応 挙 . Asahi Shimbun, accessed April 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Missing for 80 years, 18th-century tiger painting is on display ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 6, 2013
- ↑ Figure ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
