Scroll 3 from Poetry contest of zodiac animals (Jūnirui uta awase) - Chester Beatty Online Collections

Object Information

Painting

Object no:: J 1154.3

Title:: Scroll 3 from Poetry contest of zodiac animals (Jūnirui uta awase)

Artist and production place:: Unknown
Japan

Production date:: Mid-17th century

Dimensions:: 345 mm x 10900 mm (height x length)

Material:: Paper (material) Ink (material) Pigment (material) Gold pigment Silver pigment

Language:: Japanese (language)

Collection:: Japanese collection

Document type:: Painting

Object name:: Handscroll (painting)

Description:: Scroll 3 from 'Poetry contest of zodiac animals' (Jūnirui uta awase) the text accompanied by illustrations painted in ink, colours and gold on paper; made in Japan in the mid-17th century. One of a set of three handscrolls describing a poetry contest held among the twelve zodiac animals and the subsequent battle with the non-zodiac animals who were offended at their exclusion. Conserved courtesy of the Art Research Foundation under the Joint Council for the Conservation and Restoration of Ancient Japanese Art Works in Foreign Collections at Handa Kyūseidō, Tokyo, May 1994 – April 1995.

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