Ônishi CHINNEN
(Japan 1792–1851)
- Title
- (Samurai and attendant)
- Other titles:
- Samurai and taikomochi ["drum-carrier" or attendant]
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- 19th century
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- hanging scroll; ink and light colour on paper
- Dimensions
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61.0 x 27.0cm image; 139.0 x 29.6 x 34.5cm scroll [height x width x rod]
- Signature & date
- Signed l.r.corner, in Japanese [inscribed in ink] "Onishi Chinnen [artist's seal]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1980
- Accession number
- 245.1980
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (3)
-
Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), The Floating World: Japan's world of transient pleasures, Sydney, 1994, not paginated. cat.no. C2
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, Sydney, 1981, 97 (illus.). cat.no. 97
AJIOKA Chiaki (Japan) (Curator), Heroes and villains: from Japan's floating world, Sydney, May 2001, 7. cat.no. 3.3
- Exhibition history (2)
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The Floating World: Japan's World of transient pleasures, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 May 1994–17 Jul 1994.
Heroes and Villains, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 May 2001–19 Aug 2001.
