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Benkei
Migita Toshihide, 1880 - 1925
The placement of the figure and the artist’s signature in the otherwise blank field demonstrates the Shijo painters’ quest for expressive compositions. In so doing they intensified the subject: here the warrior-monk Benkei. Toshihide forcefully laid down this bold, powerful hero over the full width of the rectangular surface of the paper.
- Artwork typehanging scroll
- Object numberAK-MAK-1713
- Dimensionslength 113.4 cm x width 44.8 cm, height 190.0 cm x width 48.1 cm, height 7.5 cm x width 55.5 cm x depth 7.5 cm
- Physical characteristicsinkt in kleur op papier op zijde