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The Chinese General Guan Yu
Mochizuki, Gyokusen, 1855, Ink and colour, Mixed media
The Chinese General Guan Yu
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18747
Title
The Chinese General Guan Yu
Artist / maker
Mochizuki, Gyokusen
Date
1855
Size
30.5 x 36.5cm
Type
Ink and colour
; Mixed media
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Art and Design Library
Guan Yu (d. 220) was a general serving under the warlord Liu Bei during the Han dynasty. A fictionalized account of events from his lifetime, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo yan yi), provided the source for endless visual representations in China and Japan. Guan Yu is usually shown as a burly warrior holding a large halberd.
From the album Open Eyes and a Radiant Heart (Katsumoku roshin).
This album contains 106 works, alternating between calligraphy and painting, by a diverse range of artists, apparently working in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). The painting subjects are dominated by landscapes, birds and flowers, with a small number of figurative works. The calligraphy pieces are done in both Chinese characters and native Japanese kana, and are typically brushed on richly decorated papers. Many of the works date from the 1850s, but the last twenty or so pages of the album were left unfilled.
Information provided by Dr Rosina Buckland (National Museum of Scotland) and Dr Takahashi Toshiro (Daito Bunka University, Tokyo)
This album was donated to Edinburgh City Libraries by Marie Ferguson Dyer in honour of her father Henry Dyer. Dyer was a Scottish engineer who became the first Principal of the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1872.
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