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Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock

late 1800s

Okabe Ko

(Japanese)
Culture
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Medium
hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Measurements
Overall: 170.2 x 87.7 cm (67 x 34 1/2 in.); Painting only: 126.4 x 56 cm (49 3/4 x 22 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1990.68
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Description

A great interest in Western scientific studies developed in Japan during the late Edo period (1615-1868) and into the Meiji era (1868-1912). One outcome of this phenomenon in the visual arts was the detailed portrayal of plant, animal, and marine life. This painting is an assemblage of objects carefully observed from nature, but not usually seen together.
A hanging scroll depicts a cylindrical, white vase overflowing with pink and purple flowers and branches with white blossoms in the center right. Gray-blue dragons pattern the vase, a spongy, green and blue rock standing in front. On the lower left, white and pink flowers with green-brown fruit fill a shallow basket, a cricket below. On the lower right, a bowl filled with water is surrounded by crabs and skinny, lobster-like creatures.

Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock

late 1800s

Okabe Ko

(Japanese)
Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)

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