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Pomegranate

Pomegranate, Urakami Shunkin, 1833

UUragami ShunkinJapanese, 1779–1846

Pomegranate

1833 · Painting

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Not receiving at present

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Minneapolis, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 3 days ago
In this state since: Sep 25, 2026
Source: The museum

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About the painting

Although many Japanese Nanga painters created works based on or inspired by old Chinese and Japanese masters, Urakami Shunkin is known to have used his own sketches drawn from real life as the basis for his finished works. Equally comfortable creating large-scale landscapes and small, detailed studies of plant life such as this picture of a pomegranate, still on the branch and split open to reveal its juicy red seeds. Since ancient times, images of ripe pomegranates bursting open have been valued in Korea, Japan, and other cultures influenced by China as symbols of fertility and abundance.

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Particulars

1833 · aged 54

17791846

Accession number: 2013.29.273

In the catalog

Paintings Ink Japanese painting Romanticism 19th century Japan

Sources

Minneapolis Institute of Art
Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — public domain

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