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Source Description
Fireflies illuminate the surrounding reeds and flowing stream below. Bunrin's rendering of a humid atmosphere captures the serenity of a summer evening.Bunrin traced his artistic ancestry back to Maruyama Okyo (1733-95), famous for his efforts to create a Japanese counterpart to European realism. Bunrin also worked in the manner of Chinese literati painters. In this hanging scroll (and in "Bowl with Sparklers" [35.79]), painted toward the end of his life, there is a delight in atmospheric qualities, perhaps stimulated by recent exposure to the contrasting lights and darks of European paintings and prints.
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Document identity
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5027
label
Fireflies Among Reeds
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obj
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drawing
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5027
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title
Fireflies Among Reeds
description
Fireflies illuminate the surrounding reeds and flowing stream below. Bunrin's rendering of a humid atmosphere captures the serenity of a summer evening.Bunrin traced his artistic ancestry back to Maruyama Okyo (1733-95), famous for his efforts to create a Japanese counterpart to European realism. Bunrin also worked in the manner of Chinese literati painters. In this hanging scroll (and in "Bowl with Sparklers" [35.79]), painted toward the end of his life, there is a delight in atmospheric qualities, perhaps stimulated by recent exposure to the contrasting lights and darks of European paintings and prints.
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1870-1877 (Meiji)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
kakemono
scroll paintings
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5
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import
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cm
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114.8
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38.9
dimensionsRaw
H of image: 45 3/16 × W: 15 5/16 in. (114.78 × 38.89 cm); H with border: 52 1/2 × 19 13/16 in. (133.35 × 50.32 cm); H with support: 76 1/4 × W: 19 13/16 in. (193.68 × 50.32 cm)
style
Nihonga
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Inscription]; [Seal]
med
ink and colors on silk mounted on paper and brocade
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7173
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JPK
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3222
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