Soushi Arai Komachi Zu Byobu (Ono no Komachi washes the book)

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Soushi Arai Komachi Zu Byobu (Ono no Komachi washes the book)

Artist Soga Shohaku (Japanese, 1733 - 1798)

Date1760

DimensionsOverall: 57 3/8 × 139 in. (145.8 × 353.1 cm)

Mediumink and light color on paper

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineMrs. George W. Stevens Fund

Object number

2025.21

Not on View

DescriptionSix-panel screen. The four figures are painted in dynamic outline with a range of ink washes from black to grey. There is a cherry blossom willow tree amidst clouds in the upper right of the screen.

Published ReferencesShohaku Shock!! Soga Shohaku and the Painters in Kyoto, 2012, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japanese Association of Art Museums, no. 29. Kokka, February 2013, no. 1408Exhibition HistoryChiba, Japan, Chiba City Museum of Art, Shohaku Shock! Shohaku Soga and Kyoto Painters, April 10-May 20, 2012 , no. 29.