Passing rains on the bay

Object Details

• Artist

  Takashima Hokkai 高島北海 (1850-1931)

• Provenance

  To 1976

  Toyosaburo Taniguchi, Osaka, Japan. [1]

  From 1976

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Toyosaburo Taniguchi, Osaka, Japan. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Collector Taniguchi Toyosaburo of Osaka, Japan, presented 95 paintings that had long been in his collection to the Freer Gallery of Art in 1976, as a gesture of goodwill to celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial.

  [2] In 1997, the hanging scroll was transferred from the Freer Study Collection to the Freer Gallery of Art permanent collection.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. Toyosaburo Taniguchi

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mr. Toyosaburo Taniguchi

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1920s, 1900s

• Name

  Taniguchi, Toyosaburo

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Trees, Boats and boating, Rain, Art, Hill, Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912), Kakemono

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings