Object Details
Artist
Shibata Zeshin
Medium
Hanging scroll: ink and colors on paper
Dimensions
Image: 45 × 19 inches (114.3 × 48.3 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Sondra Milne Henderson in honor of Professor Martie Young
Object
Number
97.052.002
Zeshin was one of late-nineteenth-century Japan’s most versatile artists, excelling in painting, lac(…)
Zeshin was one of late-nineteenth-century Japan’s most versatile artists, excelling in painting, lacquer, ceramics and woodblock prints. The son of a shopkeeper and a former geisha in Edo, he studied painting with Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845) in the Shijo tradition. His lacquer works were shown in international expositions, so that he was one of the few Meiji-period artists to become famous in the West during his lifetime.
