Lotus from Album of Paintings by the Venerable Zeshin
Shibata Zeshin (Japanese, 1807–1891)
1847
- Medium
- leaf in accordion-style album; ink, color, and gold on silk
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Dimensions
- Each leaf: 19.7 x 18.4 cm (7 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The artist used a wet on wet painting technique called tarashikomi (dripping in) to created the mottled leaf surface.
