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DiaporamaTenjin Traveling to China
1787
89.0 x 33.0 cm
Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754 – 1799)
Discover Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799), a Maruyama School master! Explore his unique blend of Japanese tradition & Western realism, known for evocative landscapes and charming animal art.
This painting depicts the statesman-poet-scholar Sugawara Michizane (845–903) as Tenjin, the deified being he became following his unjust death in exile, and the calamities his angry spirit inflicted upon the imperial court in Kyoto. After his deification, Michizane was revered as a god of agriculture and patron of the falsely accused. One guise in which he is often represented is that of “Totō Tenjin,” or Tenjin on his way to China to visit a Zen Buddhist master. Rosetsu’s vision of Totō Tenjin reflects the artist’s early style, when he was strongly influenced by the deliberate, naturalistic mode of his master, Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795), founder of the Maruyama school.
About this artwork
- Title: Tenjin Traveling to China
- Artist: Nagasawa Rosetsu
- Year: 1787
- Original dimensions: 89.0 x 33.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Main color: Driftwood
- Color hue: Yellow-Green Range
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