Ebisu fishing

Object Details

• Artist

  Kawanabe Kyosai 河鍋暁斎 (1831-1889)

• Label

  Lively sketches by the nineteenth-century artist Kawanabe Kyosai reveal the variety of traditional Chinese and Japanese legends that were popular in the Meiji era, when Japan was rapidly modernizing along Western technological models. In this sketch, the deity Ebisu catches a red tai (sea-bream). The artist's mastery of draftsmanship and control of tonal renderings can be appreciated in these lively scenes. Both Daikoku and Ebisu are often included in pictures of the shichifukujin (Seven gods of good fortune).

  See also F1975.29.5 and F1975.29.12.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Tales and Legends in Japanese Art (June 21, 2003 to January 4, 2004)

  Japanese Drawings (March 16, 1984 to July 22, 1985)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Album

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• Date

  1880s, 1860s

• Name

  Kawanabe, Kyosai

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Japanese Art, Ebisu (Japanese deity), Meiji era (1868 - 1912), Fishing

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Albums