1996.17.192.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Scroll painting [.1] of autumn maple colours at Tsutenkyo Bridge, Tofuku-ji temple, in a wooden box [.2] with lid [.3] [SM 24/04/2008]

Long description

Scroll painting [.1] of autumn maple colours at Tsutenkyo Bridge, Tofuku-ji temple, in a wooden box [.2] with lid [.3]. The painting is mounted on a white ivory rod. The painting is mounted on paper covered with a grey silk brocade textile with white flowers. The entire painting is stored in a wooden box. The lid of the box has handwritten characters on both sides. The box has a Japanese label at one end and at one end is a label in English that reads: "Hanen : Autumn at Tsuten-kyo, Tofukuji" [SM 24/04/2008]

Geographical reference

Japan

Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan

Kyoto

Cultural groups

Japanese

Person

Maker Hoen

Field collector John Lowe

PRM source John Lowe

Date / Period

Date made: 1804-1867

Date collected

By 1996

Acquisition information

Donated: 02/1996

Materials and processes

Material Paper Plant, Material Ink, Material Pigment, Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Wood Plant, Process Painted, Process Brocaded Woven, Process Carpentered, Process Bound, Process Rolled, Process Carved

Dimensions

Width: max 77 mm, Width: max 75 mm, Length: max 500 mm Fully unrolled, Length: max 568 mm, Length: max 570 mm, Height: max 60 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1996.17.192.1 Accession number: 1996.17.192.2 Accession number: 1996.17.192.3

Research and responses

For information on the artist Kansai, see Laurance P. Roberts' A Dictionary of Japanese Artists, 1976. (Weatherhill: Tokyo & New York), p. 46. (See xerox in RDF.)

For more information on scroll paintings and the horse race at Kamigamo Shrine see the donor's typescript catalogue p. 45-46.

Search terms: Picture and Graphic Art, Box, Painting, Scroll, Lid