源琦 梅下美人図|Chinese Beauty Beside a Plum Tree, leaf from the album “A Contest of Beauties from the Near and Distant Past” (Chūko shomeika bijin kurabe)
1895
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Album: 8 1/2 x 5 5/16 in. (21.6 x 13.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Culture & Period
Japan · Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Donald Keene, in honor of Julia Meech-Pekarik, 1986
Accession Number
JP3717
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Genki (Komai Ki) · 1747–1797
**Genki (Komai Ki, also known as Komai Genki or 源琦)** was a Japanese painter active during the middle Edo period, born on June 12, 1747, in Kyoto and who died on August 8, 1797 (or September 27 according to some records), at the age of fifty. He is recognized as one of the leading figures in the Maruyama-Shijō school, a tradition that blended naturalistic observation with elegant decorative qualit...