The drunken Lu Chi Shen destroys the temple guardian figure of the temple Godaizan, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1887 - 1890

Title(s)

The drunken Lu Chi Shen destroys the temple guardian figure of the temple Godaizan

Object type

• print
• diptych

Object number

RP-P-1982-287

Catalogue reference

• Jap Cat V 37

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Description

De getatoeëerde Lu Chi Shen vernielt een hek bij het reusachtige beeld van de tempelwachter van de Godaizan tempel.

Artist

• print maker: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (mentioned on object)
• Negishi Chokuzan (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Hasegawa Tsunejirô (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: Japan
Japan
publisher: Tokyo

Dating

1887 - 1890

Material

• paper

Technique

color woodcut / nishiki-e

Measurements

height 728 mm × width 246 mm

What

• vandalism (mischief-making play)
• monument, statue

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1982

Copyright

Public domain

• The age of Yoshitoshi : Japanese prints from the Meiji and Taishō periods : Nagasaki, Yokohama and Kamigata prints : recent acquisitions, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Jan Frederik Heijbroek, cat.nr. 37
• Museumschatten, p. 69-72, afb.
• The bizarre imagery of Yoshitoshi : the Herbert R. Cole collection, Roger S. Keyes, George Kuwayama, cat.nr. 37
• Twee Japanse tempelwachters, Menno Fitski, p. 11, afb. 5
• Two Japanese temple guardians, Menno Fitski, p. 11, afb. 5
• Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 268-269, afb. 10
• 'Tatooed heroes of the Suikoden', Andon (2009) nr. 87, p. 74, cat.nr. 15.