Salmon

hanging scroll

Japanese Collection

Accession Nr.: 1862
Type: painting; hanging scroll
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1793
Edo (Tokugawa) period
Place of production:
Acquisition: collected by Péter Vay
Signed: the name of the artist
Marks: red stamp, date
Materials/Techniques: ink and pale colours on paper
Dimensions: height: 120 cm
width: 60.3 cm
mirror: 28.7 × 50.8 cm
Water gushes from dark rocks on the left-hand side of the painting, forming bubbles as it surges onwards. Five fishes swim from the right through the surging water towards the waterfall. A two-line inscription in ink can be seen in the upper right-hand corner of the painting, with the date and the name of the artist, and a red stamp.