Artist: Kim Jun-Geun, Known Kisan
Date: 1800
Size: 5 x 56 cm
Museum: Museu do Oriente (Lisbon, Portugal)
Technique: Watercolour
Hatters (gat-jang-i) performing the different stages of their work using various tools. Gat is the name given to the traditional horsehair hat for men, and jangi refers to one’s profession; gatjangi means the person whose job it is to make or repair the gat. Carla Alferes Pinto in the Catalogue Portuguese Presence in Asia, Museu do Oriente, p. 440-442 The artist Kim Jun-geun was a Korean Christian painter who worked during the last two decades of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Having adopted the artistic name Kisan, he was best known for over three hundred watercolours depicting local folklore and customs, and in 1892 for illustrating the Korean translation of John Bunyan
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