Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 90602
Kuan Yu Studying at Night
- Artist / 作者
- Okumura Masanobu奥村政信
- Date / 年代
- 1746-1749
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / honolulu
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 209 × 450 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Honolulu Museum of Art
- Published by / 公開者
- 白石カナ
- Rights / 権利
- No reusable image license documented
- Attribution / 表記
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Catalog note / 解説
There was a great vogue for designs featuring the Chinese general Kuan Yu in the 1740s. This ishizuri design with the Tanchösai seal could date from that period. The inscription in Chinese reads: ""The time to attack: seize the occasion when the soldiers are tired,"" lines from the book Sun-Tzü Ping-Fa being read by the famous general. The technique of drawing in white against a black background in imitation of stone rubbings is particularly appropriate to this design of the great military stategist studying at night by candlelight. Kuan Yu's attendant is Cho Tsang. His face, with large eyes and heavy beard, follows Chinese literary tradition. The treatment perhaps reflects Namban influence.
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