  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: Dragon
  
  
  Artwork Date
  19th century
  
  Artist
  After Maruyama Okyo
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1733-1795
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  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
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Two-panel folding screen; ink 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.
  
  
  
  81.693.2
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
