Artist: Nagasawa Rosetsu
Date: 1780
Size: 125 x 27 cm
Technique: Paper
The rooster, representative of the patriarchal head of the family—per the Confucian ideal—was a popular subject in Chinese and Japanese painting of the premodern era. Here, the birds are silhouetted in negative white against a background of gray ink wash. Together with Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800) and Soga Shōhaku (1730–1781), Rosetsu was known as one of the “Three Eccentrics” (san kijin) of eighteenth-century Kyoto. He studied with Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795), founder of Kyoto’s Maruyama school.
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