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Kitamuki Unchiku
Tiger17th century

Not on view
Hanging scroll with bold black ink calligraphy, large expressive character over bamboo and mist, with red seal impressions at lower left
Detail of an ink painting on aged paper, showing a red square seal with Chinese characters in seal script, a vertical ink inscription above, and a partial black ink brushstroke at top; gold silk mounting border at left.
Woodblock print in reddish-brown ink on aged paper, depicting an armored deity figure riding atop a scaled dragon with curling tail, rendered in fine outline.

Kitamuki Unchiku, Tiger, 17th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Max and Eleanor Baril through the 1990 Collectors Committee, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Kitamuki Unchiku
Japan, 1623-1703
Title
Tiger
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
17th century
Period
Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573-1603)
Medium
One of a pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 45 7/8 x 17 3/8 in. (116.5 x 44.1 cm); Mount: 79 3/8 x 20 3/4 in. (201.6 x 52.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Max and Eleanor Baril through the 1990 Collectors Committee
Accession Number
AC1996.174.1.2
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Guth, Christine. Asobi: Play in the Arts of Japan. Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 1992.
  • Singer, Robert T., and Kawai Masatomo, editors. The Life of Animals in Japanese Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2019.

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