Shibata Zeshin was a Japanese lacquer painter and print artist of the late Edo period and early Meiji era.
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Maki-e Fuji Tagonoura, 1872
"Waves" maki-e panel, 1888-1890, the Khalili Collection of Japanese Art
Crows Fly by Red Sky at Sunset, woodblock print, ca. 1880 (Brooklyn Museum)
Autumn Grasses in Moonlight, ink, lacquer, and silver leaf on paper, 1872-91 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Inrō with design of lotus, made of wood, lacquer, shell and glass, with silk cord, late Edo-early Meiji period (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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About this person
Shibata Zeshin was a Japanese lacquer painter and print artist of the late Edo period and early Meiji era. He has been called "Japan's greatest lacquerer", but his reputation as painter and print artist is more complex: In Japan, he is known as both too modern, a panderer to the Westernization movement, and also an overly conservative traditionalist who did nothing to stand out from his contemporaries. Despite holding this complicated reputation in Japan, Zeshin has come to be well regarded and much studied among the art world of the West, in Britain and the United States in particular.
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