Artist Tsuruzawa Tansaku
     nationality Japanese
     birth-death d. 1797-1797
Creation date 18th Century/late
Materials ink on paper, six-panel folding screen
Dimensions 68 x 92 in.
Credit line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Miller
Accession number 79.350

Gallery Label

The dragon, a symbol of rain, frolics amidst swirling clouds and turbulent waves. Tansaku, who followed the Kano school of painting, was an early teacher of Maruyama Ōkyo, whose paintings are also hanging in this gallery.

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assymetrical, beady eyes, blowing in the wind, Chinese, circular shapes, comical , conflict, figure, firey, flowing, in motion, Japanese screen, movement, moving, powerful, subdued colors, swirling movement, symbolic, tempest, whiskers
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