Carp – Boy’s Day Banner

Japan

Showa period (1926-1989), About 1930

  • Titles Carp - Boy's Day Banner (Descriptive)
  • Artist Japan
  • Medium silk
  • Dimensions 80 1/2 x 24 3/4 in. (204.5 x 62.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Paul and Carolynn Mohney, AFI.373.2010
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Squat baluster-form body painted with lotus scrolls, pointed leaves around the wide neck, and a band of vertical brush strokes around the foot
A rooster, hen, and chicks.
Famous bridge over a gorge at Tofuku-ji in Kyoto.