Moonlight Revelry at Dozo Sagami

Object Details

• Artist

  Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 (1753-1806)

• School/Tradition

  Ukiyo-e

• Provenance

  To 1903

  Hayashi Tadamasa (1853-1906), Paris and Tokyo, to 1903 [1]

  From 1903 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the Hayashi sale, through Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Paris, in 1903 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remark 1, undated folder sheet note, in the object record.See also, Original Kakemono List, L. 295, 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

  Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered (April 8 to July 9, 2017)

  Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)

  The Floating World: Ukiyo-e Paintings and Prints (December 8, 2002 to May 26, 2003)

  Whistler & Japan (May 14, 1995 to January 1, 1996)

  Japanese Art (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)

  Bicentennial Exhibition: Japanese Art (December 15, 1975 to November 10, 1976)

  Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting (May 2, 1973 to July 1, 1974)

  Japanese Art—Paintings, Pottery (August 18, 1967 to September 20, 1971)

  Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)

  Ukiyo-e Exhibition (August 7, 1961 to January 1, 1963)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Hayashi Tadamasa 林 忠正? (1853-1906) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Hayashi, Tadamasa

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Boats and boating, Art, Moon, Outer space, Ukiyo-e, Musical instruments, Charles Lang Freer collection, Shamisen, Music, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ocean, Kakemono

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings