Bamboo Grove, Ganryō

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Ganryō, Bamboo Grove
Ganryō, Bamboo Grove
Ganryō
Bamboo Grove
1800s, Edo period (1600–1868) or Meiji period (1868–1912)
Ganryō, artist
1798–1852
Bamboo Grove, 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868) or Meiji period (1868–1912)
Where object was made: Japan
Material/technique: silk; color; ink
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 1270 x 533.4 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 50 x 21 in
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1970.0083
Not on display
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Archive Label 2003:
Between 400 and 500 bamboo varieties grow in Japan. Ganryo- painted this grove of bamboo in various stages of growth. In doing so he presents tall and upright mature plants along with younger stalks seeming to bend with the wind, allusions to the virtues of strength and flexibility that are ascribed to bamboo. In Daoism, and to some extent in Buddhism, mature bamboo with its tube-like structure symbolizes emptiness. In East Asian philosophy, this emptiness is not a negative characteristic, but a positive one to be attained.