Matsukaze and Murasame

Object Details

• Artist

  Kawamata Tsunemasa 川又常正 (fl. 1716-1748)

• Provenance

  To 1903

  Yamanaka & Company, New York, NY, to 1903 [1]

  From 1903 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in March 1903 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Kakemono List, L. 313, pg. 75, 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

  Surveying the Collections: Poets and Parties (July 2, 2000 to February 4, 2001)

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

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 3 and 4 (February 25, 1956 to January 1, 1963)

  Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art, 1955 (October 25, 1955 to November 22, 1955)

  Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Art (October 3, 1947 to February 25, 1956)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (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, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Trees, Pine tree, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Seascape, Ukiyo-e, Woman, Kakemono

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings