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Dragon Prunus
Also titled Draakprunus
Kōkai Tōryū (1779–1853)
1779 - 1853
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 0 cm x width 0 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift F. Hess, 2018)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Kokai dreamed of a dragon-shaped prunus. He wrote: ‘Why does my painted prunus with its blossoms resemble a dragon? The prunus tree has transformed itself into a dancing dragon high up in the sky. To celebrate the god of spring, it is decorated with fresh blossom buds. I saw this image in a New Year’s dream and had to capture it on paper.
