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Maruyama Ōkyo
Puppies among Bamboo in Snow1784

Not on view
Japanese six-panel folding screen, ink and color on silver-white ground, snow-laden bamboo with five cats along a railing and snowy ground

Maruyama Ōkyo, Puppies among Bamboo in Snow, 1784, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Maruyama Ōkyo
Japan, 1733-1795
Title
Puppies among Bamboo in Snow
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1784
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
One of a pair of six-panel screens; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 64 x 140 in. (162.56 x 355.6 cm)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Fund
Accession Number
M.58.9.2
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography

  • Mayuyama, seventy years = 龍泉集芳 : 創業七十周年記念. Tokyo: Mayuyama & Co., 1976.

  • Singer, Robert T., and Kawai Masatomo, editors. The Life of Animals in Japanese Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2019.
  • 別冊太陽 = Bessatsu taiyō, no. 21 (Winter 1977).: 100-101.

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