Painting [.1] of a new year scene mounted on a roll and stored in a wooden box with a base [.2] and lid [.3] [SM 22/04/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Painting [.1] of a new year scene mounted on a roll and stored in a wooden box with a base [.2] and lid [.3] [SM 22/04/2008]
Long description: Painting [.1] of a new year scene mounted on a roll and stored in a wooden box with a base [.2] and lid [.3]. The painting is mounted on one white ivory rod at the end. The painting is mounted on paper covered with a light blue silk brocade textile with gold 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 label at either end, one is written in Japanese, the other says: Kazen IM New Year Scene [SM 22/04/2008]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan; Kyoto
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Maker Kazen; Field collector John Lowe; PRM source John Lowe
Date / Period: Date made: 1784-1837
Date collected: By 1996
Acquisition information: Donated: 02/1996
Materials and processes: Material Paper Plant, Material Ink, Material Pigment, Material Wood Plant, Process Painted, Process Brocaded Woven, Process Stained, Process Carpentered
Dimensions: Length: max 434 mm, Length: max 435 mm, Width: max 64 mm, Width: max 64 mm, Width 365 mm, Length 1790 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1996.17.195.1 Accession number: 1996.17.195.2 Accession number: 1996.17.195.3
Research and responses: For information on the artist Kansai, see Laurance P. Roberts' A Dictionary of Japanese Artists, 1976. (Weatherhill: Tokyo & New York), p. 74. (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