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Shibata Zeshin

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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

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

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

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

Hanging scroll of red vine leaves and a blue-headed bird perched on a dark rock above rippling water.

Leaves and Bird

19th century

Hanging scroll showing stacked tortoises tied with a red cord and two crabs on a plain tan silk ground.

Tortoises and Crabs

19th century

Hanging scroll of seated Kannon in white robes beside a bamboo branch in a blue vase, with a halo behind.

Kannon

19th century

Hanging scroll of Mount Fuji above sailboats on water, with a dark headland and pine trees in soft ink wash.

Sailboats and Mount Fuji

19th century

Hanging scroll of butterflies above bamboo stalks, pink clover, and a patterned cushion on a pale silk ground.

Garden Scene

19th century

Small brown bird beside cattails and grasses on a gold-leaf ground, with a red seal in the lower left corner.

Bird and Cattails

Meiji period (1868-1912)

Gold leaf painting with brown ink washes suggesting a mountain ridge and a dark ink mass at upper left.

Mountain and Landscape

Meiji period (1868-1912)

Dark mountain ridge and bare trees against a gold background, with a small bird and red seal at right.

Water Scene with Mountain

Meiji Period (1868-1912)

Painting of a waterfall with pale curving strokes over gold leaf, framed by dark rock, with a red seal in the lower right.

Waterfall

Meiji period 1868-1912

Small gold-ground painting of loose ink plant sprigs and grass with a red seal at lower right.

Youth with Fish Net

Meiji period (1868-1912)