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Benkei
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The placement of the figure and the artist’s signature in the otherwise blank field demonstrates the Shijo painters’ quest for expressive compositions. In so doing they intensified the subject: here the warrior-monk Benkei. Toshihide forcefully laid down this bold, powerful hero over the full width of the rectangular surface of the paper.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBenkei. 1880 - 1925. Migita Toshihide. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
