Colorful Realm of Living Beings

Jakuchū's meticulous, jewel-bright studies of birds, fish and flowers verge on the hallucinatory. A devout eccentric, he spent a decade on the thirty scrolls.

Colorful Realm of Living Beings

Itō Jakuchū

  • Datec. 1765
  • MovementJapanese painting
  • WhereMuseum of the Imperial Collections, Tokyo
  • RegionEast Asia · Japan