Artist:

Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)  Search this

Medium:

Ink and pink tint on paper

Dimensions:

H x W: 171.5 x 374.6 cm (67 1/2 x 147 1/2 in)

Type:

Painting

Origin:

Japan

Date:

1590-1640

Period:

Momoyama or Edo period

Provenance:

To 1905

Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1905 [1]

From 1905 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi in 1905 [2]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Voucher No. 34, September 1905, as well as Original Screen List, S.I. 78, L. 105, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] See note 1.

[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Collection:

Freer Gallery of Art Collection

Exhibition History:

Rinpa Screens (February 25, 2023 to February 24, 2024)

Sotatsu: Making Waves (Saturday, October 24, 2015 to Sunday, January 31, 2016)

Japanese Screens (May 9, 1993 to August 1, 1994)

Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)

Japanese Screens (February 11, 1983 to July 19, 1988)

Rimpa Screens (October 9, 1980 to December 21, 1981)

Japanese Art (July 1, 1974 to April 10, 1978)

Japanese Art—Painted Screens (August 18, 1967 to May 2, 1973)

Previous custodian or owner:

Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七 (ca. 1861-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Topic:

dragon  Search this

Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)  Search this

Edo period (1615 - 1868)  Search this

Japan  Search this

Japanese Art  Search this

Charles Lang Freer collection  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number:

F1905.230

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

Related Online Resources:

Google Cultural Institute

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Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye31fac36b7-63a5-4ec8-ac36-238eea78330f

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:fsg_F1905.230