Plum

Object Details

• Artist

  Fuka'e Roshu (1699-1757)

• Description

  A clearly silhouetted form of a plum branch is executed in ink on a leather ground (cat skin of the Japanese three-stringed instrument, shamisen), the surface of which is greatly yellowed. The branch stretches from right to left and upward of the leather square.

  Mounted on panel, in a modern black frame with a light green needlepoint-decorated mat. Wrapped in a yellow muslin bakg, in a new blue cloth slip cover.

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Willard G. Clark

• Type

  Painting

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• Name

  Fuka'e, Roshu

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings