Minneapolis Institute of Art
Nine-Tailed-Turtle Tao Zongwang
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Publisher: Ōhashiya YashichiLinkedCulture matchlcp-f659e9abd5fd
- Date
- 1868, 7th lunar month
- Medium
- Preparatory drawing for a print, ink and color on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 127824
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
Tao Zongwang and Zhang Heng are members of the band of rogue heroes whose adventures form the core of the popular Chinese novel from the 1300s called The Tales of the Water Margin (Shuihuzhuan; Jap.: Suikoden). In the summer of 1868, Yoshitoshi produced an unknown number of designs for a series of portraits of these heroes that Ōhashiya Yashichi then published. These two hand-colored drawings are not among the nine that were printed. The publisher might have stopped further production because sales were underwhelming. Japan, Asia
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- The Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, gifts of various donors, by exchange, and gift of Edmond Freis in memory of his parents, Rose and Leon Freis
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