Jurōjin
Jurōjin, one of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune, depicted wearing a tall cap and leaning on a bamboo staff, is accompanied by a deer, who holds a magical fungus in its mouth. A rolled up scroll tied to the end of the deity’s bamboo staff seems to be tangled in the branches above. Kishi Ganku, who studied paintings of the Maruyama-Shijō school and others when he was in his twenties, later established his own artistic lineage, whose members endeavored to meld Japanese painting styles with elements of Western realism. While his handling of the trees and rocks follows a standard Japanese approach to landscape, his treatment of Jurōjin’s facial features exhibits a characteristic interest in naturalism.
Artwork Details
- 岸駒筆 寿老人図
- Title: Jurōjin
- Artist: Gan Ku (Kishi Ganku) (Japanese, 1749–1838)
- Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date: 1838
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions: Image: 55 1/16 × 22 7/16 in. (139.8 × 57 cm)
Overall with mounting: 83 1/2 × 29 11/16 in. (212.1 × 75.4 cm)
Overall with knobs: 83 1/2 × 31 13/16 in. (212.1 × 80.8 cm) - Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2018
- Object Number: 2018.853.31
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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