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Calligraphy
Tanomura Chikuden (Japanese, 1777–1835)
early 1800s
- Medium
- double-leaf from a pair of albums; ink on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.2 x 18.3 cm (9 15/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary B. Lee, C. Bingham Blossom, Dudley S. Blossom III, Laurel B. Kovacik, and Elizabeth B. Blossom, in memory of Elizabeth B. Blossom
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Tanomura Chikuden was a prolific writer; among the most popular of his works was Sanchūjin Jōzetsu (Chatter of a Mountain Dweller), which featured his critiques of painters based on his own hundred rules of painting.
