Konoshima Okoku / Spring Field
2026年2月22日

Katayama Yokoku
【Dongfang Shuo and a White Deer in the Clouds】

Dongfang Shuo, who is said to have stolen and eaten peaches planted by the Queen Mother of the West three times, became a sage and lived to the age of 800, is depicted with a white deer at his side. In contrast to Dongfang Shuo's satisfied expression, the deer's appearance as it hides, spying out the surroundings, stimulates the imagination, suggesting that not much time has passed since the theft.
Number
D-188
Title
Dongfang Shuo and a White Deer in the Clouds
Artist
Katayama Yokoku
Detail
Materials : ink, colour and gold on silk
wooden boxed
Size : W 46 × H 109.5 cm (Image) ・ W 59.5 × H 189 cm (Mount)
Condition: slightly damaged on the mount / trace of repair on the image
Painted in 1795 at the age of 36.
Artist History
Katayama Yokoku (1760-1801) was a painter of the Nagasaki School in the mid-Edo period. He was born in Nagasaki. He excelled in painting from a young age, and Maruyama Okyo was so amazed by his artistic talent that he asked Yokoku to become his apprentice, welcoming him as a friend. His tiger paintings were so skilled that he was called "Yokoku's fur painter."
Price
380,000yen

Katayama Yokoku
【Dongfang Shuo and a White Deer in the Clouds】

Dongfang Shuo, who is said to have stolen and eaten peaches planted by the Queen Mother of the West three times, became a sage and lived to the age of 800, is depicted with a white deer at his side. In contrast to Dongfang Shuo's satisfied expression, the deer's appearance as it hides, spying out the surroundings, stimulates the imagination, suggesting that not much time has passed since the theft.
Number
D-188
Title
Dongfang Shuo and a White Deer in the Clouds
Artist
Katayama Yokoku
Detail
Materials : ink, colour and gold on silk
wooden boxed
Size : W 46 × H 109.5 cm (Image) ・ W 59.5 × H 189 cm (Mount)
Condition: slightly damaged on the mount / trace of repair on the image
Painted in 1795 at the age of 36.
Artist History
Katayama Yokoku (1760-1801) was a painter of the Nagasaki School in the mid-Edo period. He was born in Nagasaki. He excelled in painting from a young age, and Maruyama Okyo was so amazed by his artistic talent that he asked Yokoku to become his apprentice, welcoming him as a friend. His tiger paintings were so skilled that he was called "Yokoku's fur painter."
Price
380,000yen

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