Single line in clerical style

Object Details

• Artist

  Ichikawa Beian 市河米庵 (1779-1858)

• Provenance

  To 1982

  Fusao Komiya, Tokyo, Japan [1]

  From 1982

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Fusao Komiya, Tokyo, Japan [2]

  Notes:

  [1] The hanging scroll was purchased on November 1982. It was transferred from the Freer Study Collection to the Freer Gallery of Art permanent collection on November 1985. See object file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Fusao Komiya

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Harold P. Stern Memorial Fund

• Type

  Calligraphy

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• Name

  Fusao, Komiya

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Calligraphy (visual works)