Artist Kunii Ōbun
     nationality Japanese
     birth-death 1833-1887
Creation date 1884
Period Meiji
Materials ink, color, gold leaf on paper, six-panel screen
Dimensions 67 x 142 5/16 in. (overalll)
Location Richard M. Fairbanks Gallery
Credit line Mr. and Mrs. William R. Spurlock Fund
Accession number 2000.14

Gallery Label

Ōbun was the great-grandson of Maruyama Ōkyo and the fifth generation head of the Maruyama School. Along with tigers executed in a very naturalistic manner, the Maruyama repertory also included more stylized depictions like these two, which resemble overgrown cats. In these paintings, the primary emphasis is on design.

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animals, claws, climactic, crouching, detailed, ferocious, gift, intensity, Japanese screen, lines, movement, nature, paws, purposeful, rigid, river, soft, thirst, tiger drinking water, whiskers
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