Kozanji Horse
ASMS0024
Actual size: 2¼" x 2½"*
$5.00 (Postage added $0.15) | The four Choju-giga scrolls (Animal Caricatures) preserved since the thirteenth century in the Kozan-ji temple, in the mountains northwest of Kyoto are a Japanese National Treasure. When viewing the first of these one has to wonder if Beatrix Potter and Kenneth Grahame weren't influenced by these drawings when developing their characters.
The first scroll, consists of a long sequence of compositions, representing the antics of monkeys, rabbits and frogs parodying human actions--swimming, practicing archery, horseback riding and wrestling. In this first scroll, full of movement and amusing touches, the frolicking animals are vividly rendered with deft and telling strokes of the brush--always in ink. The same highly skilled technique of ink outline drawing occurs in the second scroll, also of various animals, not humanized now but represented naturalistically: horses, dogs, cocks, etc. Fifteen kinds of real or imaginary animals are treated with naive exactitude and liveliness. While the scenes of the first scroll are unmistakably satirical, there is nothing of this in the second; these animals have a purely pictorial significance. This horse is representative of the second scroll.
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