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Hunting Tartars
- Museum No.
- AK536
Photo No：600-15227-1
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| Title | Hunting Tartars |
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| Category | Painting (A), Early Modern Painting, Other |
| Country | Japan |
| Period | Edo |
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| Dimensions | (Each) Height 158.5cm Width 345cm |
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Tartars refer to horse-riding Mongols, according to the mid-Edo period (1616-1867) illustrated encyclopedia, Wakan sansai zue (The Sino-Japanese Illustrated Collection of All Things), in 105 volumes. Usually scenes of tartars hunting?a theme the Kanô school painters, commissioned by warrior families, were known for?are rendered with horseback figures hunting small animals. Here, the figures are shown capturing horses.
Japan-Edo