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Kintaro wrestling with a bear
Kintaro wrestling with a bear

Kintaro wrestling with a bear

Dateearly 18th century
Object number35.72
Exhibition HistoryPortland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Gift to a City: Masterworks from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection in the Seattle Art Museum, Nov. 3 - 28, 1965. Cat. no. 144. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Deities and Demons: Supernatural in Japanese Art, Oct. 20, 2022 - ongoing.Published ReferencesFuller, Richard E., Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 205
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions15 7/16 x 13 5/8 x 9 13/16 in. (39.2 x 34.6 x 25 cm)
MediumWood, gesso with polychrome
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