File:Clevelandart 1980.177.jpg
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[edit]Watanabe Kazan: Portrait of Ōzora Buzaemon
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| Artist |
Watanabe Kazan |
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Portrait of Ozora Buzaemon |
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portrait |
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| Description |
At 7 feet tall, Ozora Buzaemon became a tabloid sensation when he arrived in Edo (Tokyo) in 1827. His handprints were cherished souvenirs, and his image was hawked in woodblock prints. He was treated essentially as a sideshow freak. As inscriptions on the scroll detail, the scholar-painter Kazan met Buzaemon at the residence of noted Confucian scholar Sato Issai. Using a camera obscura-type device, Kazan captured Buzaemon’s image on a quiltwork of paper patches, making a preliminary drawing that would later be turned into a finished painting. This sad portrayal depicts Buzaemon’s inherent discomfort in his imposed role as entertainer-unlike the bombastic caricatures found in the broadsheet prints that hyped his arrival in Edo. |
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| Date | 1827 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Image: 221.8 x 117.8 cm (87 5/16 x 46 3/8 in.); Overall: 256.8 x 131 cm (101 1/8 x 51 9/16 in.); with knobs: 256.8 x 140.5 cm (101 1/8 x 55 5/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Japanese Art |
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| Accession number |
1980.177 |
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| Place of creation | Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.177 |
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| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.177 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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