Shrine Portrait

Object Details

• Description

  This painting shows a Japanese topographical painting of a religious site.

• Signatures

  Signed by three shrine-affiliated artists.

• Inscriptions

  Notations on the painting and on the box in which the painting is preserved indicate that the painting was mounted in hanging scroll format on the occasion of an imperial visit to the shrine in 1773.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Way of the Kami (May 11 to November 3, 2019)

  The Historical Buddha and Friends (November 3, 2018 to May 5, 2019)

  The Traveler's Eye: Scenes of Asia (November 22, 2014 to March 31, 2015)

  Religious Art of Japan (December 18, 2002 to January 4, 2015)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mr. James Freeman

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

  Usage Conditions Apply

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1530s

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Shrine, Art, Muromachi period (1333 - 1573), Japanese Art, Portraits, Kakemono

• Culture

  Buddhists, Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings