The fisherman Hakuryo and Mount Fuji

Object Details

• Artist

  Hishikawa Sori 菱川宗理

• Provenance

  To 1900

  Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Tokyo, Japan, to 1900 [1]

  From 1900 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi, through Edward. S. Hull Jr., New York, in 1900 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 223, pg. 49, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Along with the name of B. Kobayashi, the purchase details for this object also note the name of E.S. Hull Jr. (see Accession List, Collections Management office). Edward S. Hull Jr. of New York was Ernest Francisco Fenollosa’s (1853-1908) lawyer. Hull often acted as an agent, facilitating purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa, as well as purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa's

  well-known associate, Bunshichi Kobayashi (see correspondence, Hull to Freer, 1898-1900, as well as invoices from E.S. Hull Jr., 1898-1900, 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

  Artists of Edo (November 19, 2005 to May 29, 2006)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

  Edward S. Hull Jr.

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Kobayashi, Bunshichi, Hull, Edward S., Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ukiyo-e, Kakemono, Fisherman

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings