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Dragon Ascending the Heavens

(Japanese, 1828–1888)
about 1887 (Meiji 20)
Medium/TechniquePanel; ink on paper
DimensionsImage: 137.9 x 62.4 cm (54 5/16 x 24 9/16 in.)
Overall: 175.8 x 88.1 cm (69 3/16 x 34 11/16 in.)
Credit LineFenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession number11.4795
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenancePrior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the Museum
Kano Hôgai
about 1885 (Meiji 18)
Design for a clasp
Kano Hôgai
mid–1880s
Zhong Qui (Shôki), the Demon Queller
Kano Hôgai
about 1887 (Meiji 20)
Bamboo
Kano Hôgai
about 1887 (Meiji 20)
Hawks in a Ravine
Kano Hôgai
about 1885–86 (Meiji 19)
Landscape
Kano Hôgai
about 1887 (Meiji 20)
View: Leaf with lakeside house and boat
Kano Hôgai
late 1880s
Copy of 500 Luohans at Daitoku-ji
Kano Shunsen Tomonobu
19th–20th century
Chinese Court Figures
Kano Sanraku
17th century
Tree
Kano Eitoku
17th century