Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Source Description
Ono no Tofu, having failed his government promotion exams seven times, watches a frog repeatedly attempt to jump up to a willow branch. When the frog finally makes it on the eighth try Ono no Tofu resolves to try his exams again. His perseverance was rewarded, and he became one of the great Chinese statesmen of the 10th century.This series of forty half-size prints is made up of subjects from Chinese and Japanese lore. Yoshitoshi drew them in an apparently carefree way, signing each illustration "Yoshitoshi giga"-Yoshitoshi drew for fun.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
7725
label
Yoshitoshi ryakuga
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
7725
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Yoshitoshi ryakuga
description
Ono no Tofu, having failed his government promotion exams seven times, watches a frog repeatedly attempt to jump up to a willow branch. When the frog finally makes it on the eighth try Ono no Tofu resolves to try his exams again. His perseverance was rewarded, and he became one of the great Chinese statesmen of the 10th century.This series of forty half-size prints is made up of subjects from Chinese and Japanese lore. Yoshitoshi drew them in an apparently carefree way, signing each illustration "Yoshitoshi giga"-Yoshitoshi drew for fun.
provenance
Robert S. Shaull [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by bequest.
date
1882 (Meiji)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
color woodcuts
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] Yoshitoshi giga
RelatedObjects
5540
med
mulberry paper, pigments
creator_ids
4514
14896
collection_ids
JPK
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
b54eeca22199fbe1