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Shibata Zeshin

97 works

Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891) was a Japanese lacquer artist and painter who also made paintings in lacquer on paper. Read more

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Two-panel folding screen with six small painted paper leaves showing flowers, a bird, pine and plum branches on grey ground.

Folding Screen for Tea Ceremony with Six Bird-and-Flower Paintings

late 19th century

Ink sketch of an elderly man in a dark cap and robe walking right, carrying a broom, with a small red seal.

Painting - Shibata Zeshin

19th century

Two-panel gold screen with a pine and cherry blossoms over a stream, and three seated courtly figures on a mat at right.

Nagisa Palace from the Tales of Ise

late 1800s

Ink sketch of the demon Ibaraki-dōji with a fanged snarling face and wild hair, kneeling in a flowing robe.

Sketch of Ibaraki-dōji

c. 1840

Hanging scroll of a dark carp leaping up a pale waterfall beside a blue panel with gold foliage patterns.

A Carp Ascending a Waterfall

19th century

Six-panel gold screen of women and children in kimono around a low table, with an ink landscape screen at left.

Parody of the Four Accomplishments

second half of the 19th century

Fan-shaped painting of brown autumn leaves, green grasses and pampas plumes on a pale ground.

Autumn Leaves and Grasses (Akikusa zu urushi-e senmen)

Fan-shaped album leaf of a snow-capped mountain with four birds flying across a pale sky, gold speckled mount.

Mountains with Birds

late 19th century

Painted hanging scroll of a Noh Okina mask with hexagon pattern, crane design and cords on a pale background.

Mask for the Noh Play Okina

dated 1879

Painting of bonsai and potted plants displayed on a dark rocky stand, with decorative ceramic pots and a red seal at lower ri

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Bonsai

1882

Album leaf of a dark oil lamp with smoke beside a branch of plum blossoms, signed with a red seal.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Plum Branch with Oil Lamp

1882

Painting of golden rice stacks on poles with dragonflies in flight, a bare branch with red leaves, and hanging wooden drying

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Stack of Rice and Dragonflies

1882

Painting of a grasshopper on a curling gourd vine with a white flower and two green gourds on a pale background.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Grasshopper on Gourd Vine

1882

Ink and color painting of a duck on a snowy rock beside a drooping willow, with a pale moon behind.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Bird and Willow in Snow

1882

Painting of a straw snow shelter wrapped around a tree, with a sparrow by a stream, reeds and green shoots in the foreground.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Snow Shelter for a Tree with Sparrow

1882

Still life of a brown teapot, bamboo tea caddy with calligraphy label, gourd tray and green sprig on pale paper.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Sencha Tea Set

1882

Painting of a decorated drum float with dragons and a seated figure beside a pine tree on a gold background.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Drum for Gagaku Dance

1882

White peony in bloom beside a dark rock and peony buds on a gold-leaf background, painted in lacquer style.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Peonies

1882

Album leaf with a gold border showing many butterflies in ink and color on a pale ground, signed in the lower left.

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Butterflies

dated 1881

Hanging scroll with a large red rising sun over a pale ground, soft horizontal red bands, and a signature with red seal.

Rising Sun

second half of the 19th century

Ink painting of snowy Mount Fuji above a winter village with thatched roofs, pine trees and small figures in mist.

Mount. Fuji in Winter

dated 1890

Still life of a tea kettle on a brazier beside a dark tea bowl and red lacquer stand, against a gold leaf background.

Tea Ceremony Apparatus

Gold-ground album leaf of three men with topknots looking at a framed ink landscape with rocks and a bridge.

Three Men Looking at Framed Lacquer Drawing

Album leaf with striped spinning tops, a whip, and a red figure on a pedestal against a grey textured background.

Tops

Watercolor album leaf of tiered rice stacks hanging from a branch beside slender trees with red berries and a small bird, fra

Rice Stacks and Trees

Album leaf showing a fox at left beside swirling pale flames and grey smoke rising from sticks, on a gold-bordered mount.

Fox by Mystic Fire

Brown ink painting of a crow perched on a gnarled bare tree branch, with a red seal mark on the right.

Crow on Tree

Painting of thatched houses nestled among towering ochre and brown rock formations with dark ink dots and misty hills behind.

Village among Rocks

19th century

Hanging scroll of dark ink rock cliffs with a pale waterfall and white spray over rocks at the bottom, in blue brocade mounti

Rocks and Waterfall

Hanging scroll of a dark carp swimming up a misty waterfall in soft gray ink on a tan silk ground.

Carp Ascending Waterfall

19th century

Ink painting of a young boy in a white robe riding a dark ox, holding a long stick, with a red seal in the upper right.

Boy on Ox

19th century

Hanging scroll of red maple branches above a kettle hanging over a fire, with smoke, dried fungi, and a rock.

Autumn Maple

late 19th century

Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891) was a Japanese lacquer artist and painter who also made paintings in lacquer on paper. Browse 97 works by Shibata Zeshin from 7 museums, free to download in HD.