Kusumi MORIKAGE
(Japan circa 1620–1690)
- Title
- Rural landscape with horses and bulls
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- 17th century
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- pair of six-fold screens; ink and gold wash on paper
- Dimensions
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each screen: 152.0 x 346.6cm image; 169.0 x 364.0cm screen
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l.[left screen], in Japanese, ink [inscribed] "Morikage hitsu [drawn by Morikage]" [& artist's seal]. Not dated. Signed l.r.[right screen], in Japanese, ink [inscribed] "Morikage hitsu [drawn by Morikage]" [& artist's seal]. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by Kenneth Myer 1984
- Accession number
- 246.1984.a-b
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This Arcadian landscape has horses and bulls as the main subject; humans and their activities seem to take a secondary role. The top screen is dominated by the freely roaming, gambolling horses. The season moves from spring on the right with the blossoming plum tree to a summery scene of a mare and her colt in a stream. The bottom screen shows bulls working or playing while the village lads frolic in the landscape. The season shifts from autumn, with farmers carrying harvest, to the snowy winter. Morikage was expelled from the Kano school later in his life and moved from Edo to Kaga (present-day Ishikawa) ruled by the Maeda clan.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.231.
- Bibliography (2)
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'Japanese Painting', pg. 53-69., Asian Collection Handbook, Art Gallery of New South Wales 1990, 1990, 59 (illus.).
'Edo Painting Schools', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 231 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (1)
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The art of Japanese screen painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Nov 2004–06 Feb 2005.
