Tanuki（Racoon Dog）观察水中的倒影 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Tanuki（Racoon Dog）观察水中的倒影
品名（英）	Tanuki (Racoon Dog) Viewing Its Reflection in Water
入馆年号	1936年，36.100.44
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎【1831 至 1889】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1868 - 公元 1889
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	49 3/8 x 19 1/2 英寸 (125.4 x 49.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	尽管这幅图像传统上被认定为狐狸，这是艺术家经常描绘的主题，但动物的面部和尾巴末端的形状表明，这更可能是为了描绘一只日本貉。在日本的传说中，狐狸和塔努基都是著名的动物。当它注视着一种轮廓模糊的动物时，它在跳跃中被抓住了，这让人想起了传说中的塔努基的力量，它能做出各种各样的转变，通常是一个美丽的女人，并能欺骗不小心的人川边圭哉是江户时代晚期和明治时代早期最多产和最具独创性的画家之一。他对传统绘画技法的掌握是在卡诺学校学徒时获得的，这是由于他强烈的个人怪癖而转变为对这里生动的原始艺术的迷恋。风格和签名"Seisei Kyōsai"表明，这是他最后十年的作品，即19世纪80年代，当时KyĴsay正处于巅峰时期，是最早在欧洲和美国受到追捧和收藏的日本艺术家之一。
介绍（英）	Although this image has traditionally been identified as a fox, which is a subject the artist frequently depicted, the shape of the animal’s face and the end of its tail indicates that was more likely meant to depict a tanuki, or Japanese raccoon dog. Both the fox and tanuki are celebrated in Japanese lore Caught in mid-leap as it gazes at a sketchily delineated and ambiguous form, the beast envisioned here recalls the tanuki’s fabled power to assume diverse transformations, frequently that of a beautiful woman, and to beguile the unwary. Kawanabe Kyōsai was one of the most prolific and original painters of the late Edo and early Meiji eras. His mastery of traditional painting techniques acquired by apprenticeship in the Kano school was transformed by strong personal eccentricity to gorge the lively original art exemplified here. The style and signature, "Seisei Kyōsai," indicate that this is a work of his final decade, the 1880s, when Kyōsai was at the height of his powers and was one of the earliest Japanese artists to be avidly admired and collected in Europe and the United States.