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Collections

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

On view:
Resnick Pavilion, floor 1
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.
Artist or Maker
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Title
Oniwakamaru Observing the Great Carp in the Pond
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1889, October
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.