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(77 15/16 x 27 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Museum purchase, Asian Art Fund","markings":"Artist, \"Shaku Ninkai\" 釋印仁海, square intaglio, upper seal on top left\r\n\"Ichiji Ekishū\"  一字益洲, square relief, lower seal on top left\r\n\"...\" 類天不齋,  rectangular intaglio, bottom center","inscribed":null,"signed":"Signed upper left: 丙辰夏, 無礙\r\n\"Summer 1736, Mugai” (or perhaps pronounced Muge, Mukai)","catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"","restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"2008-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[],"makers":[{"id":14704,"displayname":"Ninkai 仁海","displaydate":"active 18th century","datebegin":1700,"dateend":1799,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Ninkai 仁海, active 18th century","displayorder":3}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"A tiger perches on the edge of a craggy rock and roars up at the sky as waves crash underneath. Ninkai likely never saw tigers, which are not indigenous to Japan. Thus, he looked to previous models, especially those by the Chinese artist Shen Quan (1682–1759), who was stationed in Nagasaki for about two years. Compared to Ganku’s tiger, on view here, Ninkai’s looks like a smaller striped cat. 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