Tiger and Dragon: Tiger

1781

Maruyama Okyo Japanese, 1733-1795

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About the Artwork

The tiger is believed to repel evil, while the dragon attracts good fortune. The compound images of the tiger conjuring up the wind and the dragon rising from the crested waves to summon billowing clouds have been the subject of paired paintings by masters of Chinese and Japanese art since the twelfth century. Ōkyo’s screens continue the lineage of imminent artists contributing to this tradition. Ōkyo renders both animals in extraordinary detail, with controlled brushwork giving a rich, soft texture to the tiger’s pelt, while moist scales and vapors lightly washed with gold impart a reptilian feeling to the dragon.

Title Tiger and Dragon: Tiger

Artwork Date 1781

Artist Maruyama Okyo

Life Dates 1733-1795

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Japanese

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Medium Two-panel folding screen; ink, color paint, and gold on paper

Dimensions Overall (fully open): 66 1/8 × 74 inches (168 × 188 cm) Installed: 66 1/8 × 66 1/2 × 17 1/2 inches (168 × 168.9 × 44.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department Asian Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Abraham Borman Family Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, General Endowment Fund, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Fund, G. Albert Lyon Foundation Fund, Mary Martin Semmes Fund and Henry E. and Consuelo S. Wenger Foundation Fund.

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 81.693.1

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Signed Signed: Okyo Tenmei I

Marks Stamped, at left center, upper seal: Okyo no Stamped, at left center, lower seal: Chusen

Provenance

Mogusa-en (Tokyo, Japan);
Ogihara (Tokyo, Japan).
(Klaus F. Naumann, Tokyo, Japan);
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Naumann, Klaus. "Okyo and the Maruyama Shijo School." Oriental Art 27, no. 1 (Spring 1981): p. 113 (ill.).

Mitchell, Suzanne. "An Introduction to Recent Asian Acquisitions." Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 2/3 (Winter 1981): pp. 60-62, (fig. 5).

Cummings, Frederick J. "Director's Report." Bulletin of the DIA 60, no. 1/2 (Summer 1982): p. 8-9, (fig. 5).

Mitchell, Suzanne. "The Asian Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts." Orientations 13, no. 5 (May 1982): pp. 28-31, (fig. 16a).

Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, p. 240.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Maruyama Okyo, Tiger and Dragon: Tiger, 1781, two-panel folding screen; ink, color paint, and gold on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Abraham Borman Family Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund, et al., 81.693.1.