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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Oniwakamaru Observing the Great Carp in the Pond1889, October

On view: Resnick PavilionDeep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures
Japanese woodblock print of a robed figure crouching on a dark rock, looking down at a large carp rising through stylized blue waves below
Japanese woodblock print; a figure with dark hair and purple and red robes crouches atop a jagged dark rock above crashing blue-green waves, leaning toward a translucent supernatural figure with fish scales emerging from the water below; vertical columns of Japanese calligraphy at upper left and right with a red publisher's seal at lower left.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Oniwakamaru Observing the Great Carp in the Pond, 1889, October, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Herbert R. Cole Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title
Oniwakamaru Observing the Great Carp in the Pond
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1889, October
Period
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Color woodblock print
Dimensions
Image: 13 1/4 × 9 in. (33.66 × 22.86 cm) Sheet: 14 3/16 × 9 1/2 in. (36.04 × 24.13 cm)
Credit Line
Herbert R. Cole Collection
Accession Number
M.84.31.118
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Keyes, Roger and George Kuwayama. The Bizarre Imagery of Yoshitoshi: The Herbert R. Cole Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980.

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