Artworks

Insects, Reptiles and Amphibians at a Pond (The Colourful Realm of Living Beings)

Artwork · Itō Jakuchū · 1757–1770 · kakemono · Museum of the Imperial Collections

One of thirty scrolls of Itō Jakuchū’s Colourful Realm of Living Beings: insects, frogs, lizards and snakes minutely and colourfully depicted, yet flattened, with the plants around them, into a swirling decorative pattern — hyper-realism meeting a Rinpa-inspired aesthetic. 1 Mason 2005, p. 324, fig. 376. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.