Folding screens mounted with poems from the anthology, Shin kokinshu 新古今集和歌色紙貼付屏風 （一双、画像：左隻のみ）

Object Details

• Artist

  Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)

• Provenance

  To 1902

  Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1902 [1]

  From 1902 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1902 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Screen List, S.I. 55, pg. 15, 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.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Sotatsu: Making Waves (Saturday, October 24, 2015 to Sunday, January 31, 2016)

  Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)

  Japanese Art in the Age of Koetsu (June 6, 1998 to February 15, 1999)

  Life of a Japanese Painting (Friday, December 1, 1995 - Wednesday, October 16, 1996)

  From Concept to Context: Approaches to Asian and Islamic Calligraphy (July 28, 1986 to February 6, 1987)

  Japanese Calligraphy (December 21, 1984 to November 7, 1985)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

  CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0)

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Matsuki, Bunkio

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Cursive script, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Semi-cursive script, Japanese Art, Poetry, Flowers

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings