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Edo Period, 19th Century
Length 24 cm
Width 33 cm
Below Text Courtesy of JAANUS.
Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System
DORO-E. Any painting produced with a type of thick, opaque paint made from inexpensive pigment and the white pigment gofun ground up and mixed with water. These pigments were most commonly used for inexpensive popular art such as Nara ehon and Otsu-e, for theater signs (kamban), stage settings and for paintings on wooden votive plaques (ema). Because the thick muddy pigments resembled oil paints in color and texture, they were employed by Akita school artists (Akita-ha) for Western style paintings in the late 18 and early 19 centuries. The pigments were also used for copper etched and woodblock printed peep-show pictures (megane-e) which entered Japan from Holland and China and were copied by artists such as Maruyama Oukyo (1733-95).
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