#tomiokatessai

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Landscape, Tomioka Tessai, late 19th century, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

bold landscape; bird's eye view of buildings, stream, mountains and trees; block of text and three seals, ULC; ivory roller ends Size: 53 × 20 7/8 in. (134.62 × 53.02 cm) (image) 80 3/4 × 26 3/8 in. (205.11 × 66.99 cm) (without roller) Medium: Ink on paper

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/117052/

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Portraits of Ike Taiga and His Calligraphies in Seal and Grass Styles, Tomioka Tessai, late 19th - early 20th century, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

book: seated male figure on front page; several pages of large characters follow; seated figure within a window flanked by scrolls and calligraphy near end of book; blue cover printed with brocade pattern Tomioka Tessai is counted among the last of Japan’s Nanga painters. A student of poetry, Japanese philosophy, Confucianism, and a variety of painting styles in his youth, and briefly a Shinto priest, Tessai spent most of his life in Kyoto, where he was a leading figure in late Nanga circles. With his friends, the prominent Meiji-period Nanga Tanomura Chokunyū (1814–1907) and Taniguchi Aizen (1816–1899), Tessai helped establish the Japan Nanga Society (Nihon Nanga Kyōkai) in 1896. In the final year of his life, he was conferred with the title, “Artisan of the Imperial Household” (Teishitsu gigei’in). Size: 1/2 × 5 3/16 × 11 1/8 in. (1.27 × 13.18 × 28.26 cm) Medium: Book; ink and color on paper

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/122211/

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Wine and Tea, Tomioka Tessai, c. 1870, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

two lines of precisely written characters against brown paper with black flecks Size: 51 × 14 1/8 in. (129.54 × 35.88 cm) (image) 76 1/4 × 18 3/4 in. (193.68 × 47.63 cm) (mount, without roller ends) Medium: Ink on decorated paper

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/118152/

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Monkey trying to catch a catfish with a gourd, Tomioka Tessai, 1912, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

image of a stylized monkey hugging a gourd on top of a catfish; text at top The poem reads: Lately there are many more men who have a monkey's guile to stick a catfish into a gourd. It is a reference to the determination and effort it takes to achieve the impossible—like fitting a huge fish into a tiny gourd bottle. Size: 14 1/4 × 2 3/8 in. (36.2 × 6.03 cm) Medium: Ink and color on silk

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/122231/