Pair of six-fold screens with a riverside tea house and a kabuki performance
Pair of six-fold screens with a riverside tea house and a kabuki performance
Place of OriginJapan
Date18th century
DimensionsH: 26 in. (66 cm); W: 72 1/2 in. (184 cm).
MediumInk, color, and gold on paper.
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineMr. and Mrs. George M. Jones, Jr. Fund
Object number
2014.1A-B
Not on View
DescriptionA pair of half size (about 2 feet tall), six fold, Japanese screens made in the 18th century in Edo by a Tosa school artist. They were created using ink, color and gold on paper screens.
Published Referencescf. Japanese Genre Paintings in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, Idemitsu Bijutsukan, 1987, #19.
cf. Paine, Robert Treat and Soper, Alexander, The Art and Architecture of Japan, Princeton, Yale University Press, 1992.
cf. Three Hundred Years of Japanese Painting, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2000.
cf. Mason, Penelope, History of Japanese Art, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Publishers, 2005.
Qing Dynasty, about 1780 - 1800
early 17th century
about 1500
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