Exchange: Brightwell - ASIAN 314: Strange Ways [Japan]

Brightwell - ASIAN 314: Strange Ways [Japan]

Winter 2020

Mori Yoshitoshi
Tengû (Mythical Demon)
kappazuri (stencil print) on paper
13 7/8 in. x 17 1/16 in. ( 35.3 cm x 43.3 cm )
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet

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The majority of this print depicts a deep architectural setting. In front of the buildings a wedding procession takes place. Rats, in daimyo fashion, are celebrating.

Utagawa Toyoharu
The Rat's Wedding
color woodblock print on paper
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Museum Purchase

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This double-leaf print depicts two camels and accompanying foreign trainers or performers in fringed clothing, with ballooning pants and dark boots. Some of the performers play instruments, while others tend to the camels. Above both pages is writing by calligrapher Santô Kyôden describing the camels and their tour of Japan around 1821.

Utagawa Kuniyasu
Camel
color woodblock print on paper
14 15/16 in. x 10 1/4 in. ( 38 cm x 26 cm )
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection

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Utagawa Kuniyasu
Camel
color woodblock print on paper
14 15/16 in. x 10 1/4 in. ( 38 cm x 26 cm )
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection

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Kōko Yoshitsuya
Bankoku jinbutsu zue eikirijin (Pictures of People of Barbarian Countries: Englishman)
woodblock print on paper
18 7/16 in x 11 3/4 in (46.83 cm x 29.85 cm);18 7/16 in x 11 3/4 in (46.83 cm x 29.85 cm)
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink

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A group of deer-like animals are resting under two trees at nightfall. There are twinkling stars shining in the dark sky and a forest in the distance.

Utagawa Hiroshige
[Facsimile] Meisho Edo hyakkei: Oji, New Year's Eve Foxfires at Nettle Tree
color woodblock print on paper
14 3/4 in x 9 11/16 in (37.47 cm x 24.61 cm);14 3/4 in x 9 11/16 in (37.47 cm x 24.61 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Haugh

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In this painting, a mischievous demon is depicted in priest’s garb begging for alms.

Japanese
Ôtsu-e: Demon soliciting alms (Oni no nembutsu)
hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
24 in. x 9 3/4 in. ( 60.96 cm x 24.77 cm )
Museum purchase for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection

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A scowling figure standing atop a pedestal. He has four arms, two of which are clasped together, and the other two of which are holding an orb and a stick. On the pedestal are two small human figures and two birds. Above the figure are two circles. On the right and left side of the image are lines of writing.

Japanese
Shômen Kongô
rubbing: ink on paper
57 5/16 x 17 1/2 in. ( 145.5 x 44.5 cm )
Gift of Mrs. Caroline J. Plumer

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Idaten is depicted here, fierce, standing on clouds. His garments blow in the breeze, and a halo showing his power and godliness encircles his head.

Yamawaki Tōki
The Deva Idaten
ink, color and gold on silk
45 1/16 in. x 12 3/4 in. ( 114.5 cm x 32.4 cm )
Gift of Helmut Stern

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This painting on a hanging scroll depicts two characters. One is the man in the foreground dressed in a white garment, a patterned and colorful belt, black boots, a hat, and wields a sheathed sword on his left (the viewer's right). The individual on the left is a smaller man with a deformed head and appears to be playing a wind instrument. That man appears to be much less decorated and wears straw clothes and an anklet. There is an inscription on the lower left side followed by a red seal.

Japanese
Shôki the Demon Queller
hanging scroll, ink on paper
88 1/4 in. x 30 in. ( 224.1 cm x 76.2 cm )
Gift of John J. Schloss

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Japanese
Figure of a Daoist immortal Tobosaku
ivory
2 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in x 15/16 in (7.3 cm x 3.2 cm x 2.3 cm)
Gift of Mr. Curtis G. Coley

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Japanese
Netsuke of Oni (demon) comforted by a warrior and a Niô (fierce guardian)
wood
1 1/8 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 3/8 in (2.8 cm x 4 cm x 3.5 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by a gift of Mrs. Ruth Sinsheimer and others, in memory of Joseph E. Sinsheimer, Professor of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Toxicology, The University of Michigan

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