# Benkei

- By: Migita Toshihide (1863–1925)
- Date: 1880 - 1925
- Medium: paper, ink, silk
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: height 190 cm x width 48.1 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Oranda-Jin, 2000)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-1713--a63fb2858c8c49a17458a62b2e83eeb6)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/ffdc7df8932922938790a2fe37c13c69.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The placement of the figure and the artist’s signature in the otherwise blank field demonstrates the Shijo painters’ quest for expressive compositions. In so doing they intensified the subject: here the warrior-monk Benkei. Toshihide forcefully laid down this bold, powerful hero over the full width of the rectangular surface of the paper.