Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 550,000+ artworks, 51,000+ artists, and 810+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Purification Rite by Ōtagaki Rengetsu — VisualArtsDB

Purification Rite

Purification Rite

Ōtagaki Rengetsu

1791–1871

Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 44 1/16 x 10 3/4 in. (111.9 x 27.3 cm)
Genre: Paintings
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Styles

Tags

poetry

More by Ōtagaki Rengetsu

Poem-painting “When the nightingale returns...”

Poem-painting “When the nightingale returns...”

Ōtagaki Rengetsu, 1868

Deutzia Crenata

Deutzia Crenata

Ōtagaki Rengetsu, 1791

Mountain Village in Autumn

Mountain Village in Autumn

Ōtagaki Rengetsu, 1791

Waka Poem: “Across the fields and hills…”

Waka Poem: “Across the fields and hills…”

Ōtagaki Rengetsu, 1800

Hakuzosu the Fox-Spirit

Hakuzosu the Fox-Spirit

Ōtagaki Rengetsu, 1800

Five personal letters

Five personal letters

Ōtagaki Rengetsu, 1834