Wasp and grapes

Object Details

• Artist

  After Nagamachi Chikuseki 長町竹石 (1747-1806)

• Label

  This print reproduces a painting by Chikuseki, a painter and poet who worked in the Osaka area, a center for Chinese studies in the late Edo period. Chikuseki's painting, which reflects his study of Chinese paintings of natural subjects, is reproduced here by woodblock printing. The print is representative of the continuing interest in Nanga painting by artists trained in Chinese painting styles through the late nineteenth century and also of the ability of late Meiji period printers to replicate the effects of painting.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of William E. Harkins

• Type

  Print

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1900s, 1890s

• Name

  Nagamachi, Chikuseki

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Grape, Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912), Wasp

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints