Art Institute of Chicago
Onamushi no Mikoto Killing the Great Bird
Artist unknown
- Date
- 1765
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban yoko-e
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Onamushi is a legendary warrior and Shintô deity, seen here carrying out one of his most heroic acts, the defeat of the Great Bird (a gigantic eagle), on a cliff by the sea. This is a calendar print for the year 1765, and the numbers of the long months of the year are on the warrior’s leather girdle. Though the warrior and eagle are printed in several colors, the waves of the ocean on the right are blind-printed, or embossed, and they have no color.
The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Linked open data
Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.
- Object type
- AAT300041273
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.
Battle at the Bottom of the Sea off Daimotsu Beach
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Picture of Masakiyo's Challenging Battle as Retold in the Chronicle of the Great Peace
Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Young Yoshitsune defeats Benkei at Gojo Bridge
Art Institute of Chicago
Yamamoto Kansuke Killing a Wild Boar
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Pictorial History of Heroes (Eiyū gashi)
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Numazu: Twilight Picture
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Major General Odera Fighting Fiercely at the Hundred Foot Cliff in Weihaiwei (Ikaiei hyakusekigaisho ni Odera shosho funsen su)
Art Institute of Chicago
Clearing Weather of the Togakushi Mountains: Taira Koremochi Ason
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Lady Tamamushi
Art Institute of Chicago
Sakata Kintoki Wrestling with a Tengu
Art Institute of Chicago
Gamo Sadahide's Servant, Toki Motosada, Hurling a Demon King to the Ground at Mount Inahana, from the series "New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts (Shinkei sanjuroku kaisen)"
Art Institute of Chicago
Okazaki
Minneapolis Institute of Art