Koike Kyokuko
【Dragon in clouds】
Detail
Materials : ink and gold on silk
wooden boxed
Size : W 52 × H 125 cm (Image) ・ W 62.5 × H 213 cm (Mount)
Painted in 1808 at the age of 51.
Condition: slightly stained, slightly browned, slightly damaged on the image / slightly damaged on the box
Artist History
Koike Kyokuko (1758-1847) was a painter of the late Edo period and a samurai of the Mutsu Sendai domain. He was born in Rikuzen. He studied under Matsubayashi Youko in Edo, and later studied landscape painting under Wang Shuming and bird and flower painting under Shen Nanpin. He is one of the four great painters of the Sendai domain. He was also skilled in waka poetry.