Tea Hermit of Awata 粟田茶隠図

Object Details

• Artist

  Tomioka Tessai 富岡鉄斎 (1836-1924)

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Cowles Collection (August 13, 2022 to January 28, 2024)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles

• Type

  Painting

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• Date

  1900s

• Name

  Tomioka, Tessai

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Art, Hermit, Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings