Ôtsu-e: The Thunder God Fishing for His Drum / Artist Unknown, Japan
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.368
- Title
- Ôtsu-e: The Thunder God Fishing for His Drum
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. J.E. Val-Mejias, M.D.
- Style/Group/Movement
- Ôtsu-e
- Dimensions
- 44.2 cm x 26.5 cm (17 3/8 in. x 10 7/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- figure painting
- Physical Description
- This painting portrays the Thunder God (Raijin), a powerful and ferocious figure, is fishing for his drum, carelessly dropped in the ocean.
- Subject Matter
- This painting is an example of Otsu-e, a type of folk painting originating not far from Kyoto in the present-day Shiga Prefecture towns of Otsu, Oiwake, and Otani. Otsu-e were produced with cheap local materials and stencils were used to facilitate mass production, making them affordable even to the lower classes.
- By the latter half of the seventeenth century, Otsu-e became more secular. This humorous painting among other Otsu-e had strong popular appeal, and made their way into the art and literature of famous Edo period figures. Otsu-e with iconography associated with beneficial powers would later function as amulets.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 927 x 1459
- File Size
- 140 KB
- Record
- 1987/1.368
- Link to this Item
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"Ôtsu-e: The Thunder God Fishing for His Drum; Artist Unknown, Japan." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1987-sl-1.368/1987_1.368.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.