Handscroll: Courtly Figures on a Veranda, The Tale of Shuten Dōji

A handscroll painting in ink, color, gold and silver on silk shows figures in court robes seated on a pale green-tinted veranda beside a wooden building, with a column of kana calligraphy at left. Gold clouds and a blue-grey water edge frame the scene, and two small figures kneel at lower right beneath a gold-flecked sky.

Artist

Kano Shoun (1637-1702)

Date

1700

Medium

Ink, color, gold, and silver on silk

Source

Smithsonian (National Museum of Asian Art)

Size

4000 × 1379 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art