Coxcombs, maize and morning glories

Historical period(s)
Momoyama period, 17th century
Medium
Ink, color, gold, and silver on paper
Dimensions
H x W: 159.3 x 190 cm (62 11/16 x 74 13/16 in)
Geography
Japan
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1901.99
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Painting
Type

Screen (two-panel)

Keywords
Japan, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)
Provenance

To 1901
Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Tokyo, Japan, to 1901 [1]

From 1901 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi in 1901 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 49, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] See note 1.

[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Kobayashi Bunshichi (C.L. Freer source) ca. 1861-1923

Published References
  • Zaigai hiho [(Japanese Paintings in Western Collections]. 3 vols., Tokyo. vol. 5, pl. 47.
  • Mayuyama Junkichi. Japanese Art in the West. Tokyo. pl. 221.
  • Yashiro Yukio. Sotatsu Miscellany. no. 10 Osaka, June 1953. pl. 13.
  • Kobayashi Bunshichi. Ogata ryu shi taika gafu [Four Great Masters of the Korin School]. Tokyo. pl. 1.
  • Ernest Francisco Fenollosa. Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design. 2 vols., London and New York. .
  • Laurence Binyon. Painting in the Far East: An Introduction to the History of Pictorial Art in Asia Especially China and Japan., 1st ed. London and New York, 1908 - 1969. .
  • Toledo Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition. Exh. cat. New York, January 17 - February 12, 1912. opp p. 142.
  • Dr. John Alexander Pope, Thomas Lawton, Harold P. Stern. The Freer Gallery of Art. 2 vols., Washington and Tokyo, 1971-1972. cat. 34, vol. 2: p. 162.
  • Motoaki Kono. Koetsu to Honami-ryu no hitobito. Nihon no bijutsu, no. 460 Tokyo. p. 19, fig. 19.
  • Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art: Freer Gallery of Art handbook. Washington, 1976. p. 122.
  • Thomas Lawton, Linda Merrill. Freer: a legacy of art. Washington and New York, 1993. p. 233, fig. 165.
Collection Area(s)
Japanese Art
Web Resources
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