# Portrait of Ōzora Buzaemon, in 19th-century Japan

Watanabe Kazan painted this in 1827, aged 34. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Over seven feet tall, Ōzora Buzaemon became a tabloid sensation when he arrived in Edo (Tokyo) in 1827 . His handprints were cherished souvenirs, and his image was sold on woodblock prints. As inscriptions on the scroll detail, Watanabe Kazan met Buzaemon at the residence of a noted Confucian scholar.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1827
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 221.8 x 117.8 cm (87 5/16 x 46 3/8 in.); Overall: 256.8 x 131 cm (101 1/8 x 51 9/16 in.); with knobs: 256.8 x 140.5 cm (101 1/8 x 55 5/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.177
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Watanabe Kazan](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/watanabe-kazan), Japanese, 1793–1841

1 works in the collection.

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