Kishi Chikudō — Tigers by Mountain Stream | Meiji Ink Painting

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Kishi Chikudō — Tigers by Mountain Stream | Meiji Ink PaintingKishi Chikud (18261897) was a Meiji era Japanese painter and the acknowledged master of tiger painting in 19th century Japan. Head of the Kishi school in Kyoto, he produced studies of tigers alone, in mountain streams, alert, resting of extraordinary anatomical confidence and painterly authority. His tiger paintings were widely reproduced and admired, and he remains the reference point for the Japanese tiger as a subject of fine art. Printed as a

His early graphic works — the Noirs series of lithographs and charcoal drawings featuring floating eyes

symbolic depth

and stillness

and symbolic gestures of its performers — is one of the most distinctive and spectacular in world art

His drawings — spare

and industrial design into a single programme and produced the visual language of the modern world

he developed a style of tender informality — childlike in the best sense — that stands apart from both the formal bijinga tradition and the more abstract tendencies of mid-century Sōsaku-hanga

trade privileges

inspired Rachmaninoff's orchestral tone poem

and the absurdity of existence rendered with a scratchy

and van Gogh

His bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) and kabuki actor prints are among the most widely collected works of the 20th-century Japanese print revival

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