柴田是真筆筍図|Bamboo Shoots
Shibata Zeshin
ca. 1880s · Album leaf; lacquer on paper · Asian Art
The lacquer artist and painter Shibata Zeshin rendered plump bamboo shoots and a single branch of leaves not in traditional ink and mineral pigments but in lacquer (urushi) on paper, using a technique of his own invention.
- Artist
- Shibata Zeshin
- Date
- ca. 1880s
- Medium
- Album leaf; lacquer on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
