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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- 1847
- Media categories
- Scroll , Painting
- Materials used
- hanging scroll; ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 142.0 x 46.0 cm image; 205.5 x 63.7 x 77.8 cm scroll
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1986
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 97.1986
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tsubaki Chinzan
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About
Tsubaki Chinzan was a samurai who took up painting to supplement his income, studying under the literati painter Tani Bunchô. Chinzan incorporated into his work elements of Chinese bird and flower painting from the 1700s. In this delicate painting, Chinzan has used the 'boneless' technique in which the colour creates its own outlines rather than being confined by black ink contours. Katsura plants are native to Japan and China and are admired for their sweet fragrance and the changing colours of their heart-shaped leaves.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Edo Painting Schools', Sydney, 2003, 243 (colour illus.).
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