About the Artwork
Oishi Kuranosuke
19th century
Murase Taiitsu
1803-1881
Japanese
Unknown
Ink and light color paint on paper
Overall: 58 1/2 × 13 7/8 inches (148.6 × 35.2 cm) Image: 41 3/8 × 11 3/4 inches (105.1 × 29.8 cm) Installed: 59 1/4 × 13 7/8 × 3/4 inches (150.5 × 35.2 × 1.9 cm)
Paintings
Asian Art
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Kurt Gitter
80.96
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed: Taiitsu Rojin heidai
Inscribed, above painting, a poem: [translated: He has many plans to gain his just revenge, | In difficult times his natural spirit is very rare, | Although he drinks in brothels, in his heart he is | never drunk. | Everyone looks at him as though he were a coward.]
Stamps, in red: [two artist's seals]
Provenance
Dr. Kurt Gitter and Millie Gitter
1980-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Addiss, Stephen. A Japanese Eccentric: The Three Arts of Murase Taiitsu. New Orleans, 1979, no. 14.
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Murase Taiitsu, Oishi Kuranosuke, 19th century, ink and light color paint on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Kurt Gitter, 80.96.
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