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Kikujido
- Museum No.
- AK652
| Title | Kikujido |
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| Designation | |
| Artist | Kishi Chikudo |
| Category | Painting (A), Early Modern Painting |
| Country | Japan |
| Period | Meiji |
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| Dimensions | Height 105.9cm Width 33.3cm 196.9cm |
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Kishi Chikudô (1826-1897) was born in Kyoto. He learned painting first at the Kyô Kanô ("Kyoto Kanô school"), and later studied under and was adopted by Kishi Renzan (1804-1859). He was a brilliant painter of mountain-and-stream and flower-and-bird pictures, as well as figures. Kikujidô, the subject of this work is the story of an attendant boy during China's Zhou dynasty (c. 1100-256 B.C.) who is exiled to a wasteland, but becomes eternally youthful after drinking dew drops from chrysanthemums.
Japan-Meiji