{"id":2634,"date":"2023-07-12T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2023-07-12T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T00:50:00","slug":"painting-of-a-weasel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=2634","title":{"rendered":"Painting of a Weasel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maruyama \u014ckyo&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1770-72 (Meiwa 7 &#8211; An&#8217;ei 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tangible Cultural Property, designated by Yamagata Prefecture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by the Homma family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maruyama \u014ckyo (1733-95) was one of the most famous painters of the Edo period. He sought realism in his paintings, creating a life drawing style both simple and beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This painting features near life-sized Japanese weasels throughout its main image, while in the blank spaces are drawn five images at various angles. Rather than using outlines, the animals\u2019 bodies are defined using detailed paintings of fur, with the softness of the hair and suppleness of the bodies being captured in the painting, displaying \u014ckyo\u2019s preeminent descriptive powers. While no seal nor signature are present, the word \u201cweasel\u201d is written in \u014ckyo\u2019s own hand in India ink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maruyama \u014ckyo&nbsp; 1770-72 (Meiwa 7 &#8211; An&#8217;ei 1) Tangible Cultural Property, designated by Yamagata&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}