Suigan Somin letter to Sen Sotan, the only documentary evidence of Sotan's relationship to Chinese poetry

Object Details

• Artist

  Suigan Somin (1608-1664)

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Gregory Kinsey, Kinsey Chanoyu Collection, in honor of Richard M. and Peggy B. Danziger, in appreciation of their decades of support for Chanoyu education in the U.S.

• Type

  Document

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• Name

  Suigan, Somin

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, The Kinsey Chanoyu Collection, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Documents