chouba-zu　調馬図

KEY WORD :　 art history / paintings

Lit. pictures of horse training. One theme of genre painting *fuuzokuga 風俗画 popular in the late 16c and early 17c. Many screen paintings of this type were printed by members of the Kanou school *Kanouha 狩野派, and anonymous artists. Typically, a wide variety of horses are shown being bridled and saddled by grooms, then ridden by warriors. A single six-panel screen in the Doumoto 堂本 collection, Kyoto, combines scenes of horse training with a daimyou 大名 watching the action from inside a tearoom. The screen may have been paired with a painting of stabled horses *umaya-zu 厩図 or some other horse paintings such as pictures of wild horses *gunba-zu 群馬図, and horses at pasture *bokuba-zu 牧馬図.

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