Quails with a cricket, millet and flowers
Also titled Kwartels met een krekel, gierst en bloemen
Tosa Mitsuoki (1619–1691)
c. 1655 - c. 1681
- Medium
- ink, dye, silk
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- diameter 24 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Kitanaka, Kyoto, 1930)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Painters of the Tosa School were purveyors of art to the Japanese imperial court. They worked in an extremely meticulous and refined style. Within the confines of the small picture plane, Tosa Mitsuoki portrayed a rich autumnal scene with a pair of quails, the hen of which has caught a cricket. They are surrounded by ears of millet, hibiscus, balloon flowers, and tsuyukusa (Asiatic dayflower).
