File:Kidomaru 鬼童丸 (BM 2009,3001.1).jpg
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[edit]Kidomaru 鬼童丸 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
Print artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳) |
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Title |
Kidomaru 鬼童丸 |
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Description |
English: Colour woodblock print. Kidomaru seated cross-legged on the head of a giant python, learning magic from the tengu. |
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Depicted people | Representation of: Kidomaru (鬼童丸) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 1843 (second printing) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Height: 37.20 centimetres Width: 25 centimetres | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Asia |
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Accession number |
2009,3001.1 |
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Notes |
The earlier printing of c. 1840 with a sombre colour-scheme is already represented in the Miller Collection (21222). This is a fine impression with good colour from the second printing, c. 1843, with a much lighter colour-scheme. This impression was formerly in the collection of the great Kuniyoshi scholar Basil Robinson (1912-2005), who was in regular correspondence with Prof. Miller concerning the artist. It was illustrated on the cover of Robinson's book Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints, Phaidon, 1982. Prof. Miller arranged for a supplement to be printed to the book in 1996 and distributed free to scholars. Kidōmaru was the son of Eizan Daishi-bō [Saichō, 767-822], who later studied the magic arts of the tengu. Here he sits on the head of a giant snake, surrounded by ‘raven tengu’ (karasu tengu). The theme may have been inspired by a scene in a yomihon of 1805 by Bakin entitled Shitennō shōtō iroku, in which Hakamadare and Kidōmaru engage in a competition of magic powers in a cave on Mt Seki. The severely symmetrical composition and ritual hand gesture (mudra) are reminiscent of a tantric Buddhist painting. References: Basil Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints, 1982, S1f.1, pl. 12 also cover (this impression); Isao Toshihiko, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 2008, p. 35 (first printing with darker colours) (TTC) |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2009-3001-1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
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Date and time of digitizing | 10:58, 6 February 2009 |
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