Tanuki (Dachs bzw. Marderhund) | Yoshimura Hōryū 吉村鳳柳 | 1874 - 1936 material:Paper the ancient version of Chinese

the ancient version of Chinese football was certainly influential

The mounting is antique and in excellent condition

A professional painter of that time had to master various styles

He employed Western perspective (but only when it appealed to him artistically)

This liveliness in the figures’ movements and facial expressions was certainly closer to bourgeois taste than to that of the nobility

Tanuki (Dachs bzw. Marderhund) | Yoshimura Hōryū 吉村鳳柳 | 1874 - 1936 material:Paper the ancient version of ChineseHry made a name for himself as an animal painter. He worked in the realistic tradition that goes back to Maruyama kyo (1733 1795). The tanuki only became a popular animal motif relatively late in Japanese art history. In the second half of the 19th century, there were even "tanuki specialists" like Konoshima koku, who was three years younger than Yoshimura. In Japanese folk culture, the tanuki is almost as belovedor perhaps infamousas the mischievous