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Zhong Kui (Shôki) the Demon Queller


鍾馗図
Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1745 (Enkyô 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (urushi-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color and nikawa
Dimensions Wide hashira-e; 60.7 x 24.5 cm (23 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Henderson and Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Henderson in memory of Robert T. Paine
Accession Number65.1034
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Birth of the Modern...Vienna 1900 (Neue Galerie, NY, 2011), p. 234 (this impression); Yonemura et al., Masterful Illusions (2002), #140; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #76 (this impression)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.5744, 65.1034
Signed Hôgetsudô Okumura Bunkaku Masanobu kinzu
方月堂奥村文角政信謹図
Marks Artist's seal: Tanchôsai
ProvenanceSource unknown