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Tiger Family
by Kishi Ganku
About the Artwork
By the time this self-taught painter reached his thirties, his paintings were keenly sought after by Kyoto’s sophisticated patrons, including members of the imperial family. Judging from the surviving works, his supporters delighted in the colorful, auspicious imagery of Chinese historical figures, blossoming plum trees, cranes, peacocks, roosters, and especially tigers. Kishi Ganku was originally from the coastal town of Kanazawa, but relocated to Kyoto to work for the Arisugawa family. His work incorporates stylistic elements from the Kano school, the Maruyama school, and works by the Chinese artist Shen Nanping (1682–1760).
Provenance
?–1983: (Fugendo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1983–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. OH
Exhibition history
The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984). Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984). Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15, 2017-January 2, 2018).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Kishi Ganku (Japanese, 1749/56–1838)
- Date
- early 1800s
- Medium
- One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 164.8 x 362.5 cm (64 7/8 x 142 11/16 in.); Including mounting: 179.4 x 384.8 cm (70 5/8 x 151 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 1983.3.2
More by Kishi Ganku in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009995
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