Artist:
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Mihata Jo_ryu_
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Title:
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Woman by Stream
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Date:
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mid 19th century
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Medium:
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Ink and color on silk
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Dimensions:
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46 1/8 x 19 11/16 in. (117.16 x 50.01 cm) (image)
83 9/16 x 25 3/8 in. (212.25 x 64.45 cm) (overall, without roller)
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Credit Line:
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The Louis W. Hill, Jr. Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 251
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While artists associated with the Maruyama and Shijo_ Schools were renowned for their images of flowering plants, birds and animals, they were also accomplished figure painters. Mihata Jo_ryu_, a pupil of the renowned Shijo_ School master Okamoto Toyohiko, specialized in genre subjects, especially images of beautiful women. For this depiction of a woman who has accidentally dropped her fan in a stream, Jo_ryu_ took extraordinary care to depict her face and the volume of her body as suggested by the folds of her robe. Other details, too, reveal his attention to realism, including the transparency of her summer robes and her tortoise-shell hairpins and combs.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Jo_ryu_, Mihata
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Life Dates:
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active 1830-1843
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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woman crouching on a platform over water; woman wears green transparent leaf-printed garment over red undergarment; fan floating on water, LRC
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Creation Place:
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Asia, Japan, , ,
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Accession #:
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2004.81.3
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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