Guan Yu Seated (Chinese God of War)
The story
Guan Yu, the great Chinese general worshipped as a god of war, sits in fierce concentration. Drawn in ink in the style of Hokusai's school. Chinese heroes like Guan Yu were fashionable subjects in late Edo Japan — borrowed icons from the continent.
- Artist
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Where it lives
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
