# Operating on Guan Yu's Arm, in 19th-century Japan

Katsushika Ōi painted this in the 1840s. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Ukiyo-e artists’ subject matter extended to popular literature. Katsushika Ōi used color to great effect in her gruesome version of an episode from a 14th-century Chinese novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1840s
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
- Dimensions: Mounted: 206.7 x 73.1 cm (81 3/8 x 28 3/4 in.); Painting: 140.2 x 68.3 cm (55 3/16 x 26 7/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.178
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Katsushika Ōi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/katsushika-oi), Japanese, c. 1800-after 1857

1 works in the collection.

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