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Artist:
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Tenjū Kan
after I Fu-chiu
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Title:
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Facing the Autumn Wind
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Date:
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Edo period
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Medium:
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Ink on paper
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Dimensions:
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22 5/8 x 13 9/16 in. (57.47 x 34.45 cm) (image)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton
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Location:
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Gallery 223
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Kan Tanju was a friend of Japan's greatest Nanga School artist, Ike Taiga. Together with their friend and artist Ko_ Fuyo_, they climbed mountains and discussed Chinese literati painting and poetry. Unlike Taiga, Tanju's style is restrained and usually in pure ink. Here he follows the method of I Fu-chiu, a Chinese merchant and painter who visited Japan between 1720 and 1747. Although not expressly identified as such, it is likely that I Fu-chiu originally composed the poem that Tanju included on this painting:
How can I compare myself to those
who wander aimlessly on the river?
Turning my face towards the autumn wind,
I fish along with my bamboo pole.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Kan, Tenjū
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Role:
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Painter
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Nationality:
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Japanese
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Life Dates:
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1727 - 1795
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Name:
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Fu-chiu, I
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Stamps; Signature 'Kan Tenju, Tenju, Hitsujo zoka (Brush spirit of nature), Seta min (?)', at URC, LRC and LLC; 'paint
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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a small mountain landscape containing spindly trees, a fisherman in a boat and an empty hut
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Creation Place:
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Asia, Japan, , , Kyoto
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Accession #:
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98.18.1
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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