Six Tama Rivers

Keywords: bird, Edo period (1615 - 1868), fish, Japan, landscape, river, screen, ukiyo-e

Provenance

To 1904
Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1904 [1]

From 1904 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi, in Detroit, in 1904 [2]

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Screen List, L. 96, pg. 27, 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): Charles Lang Freer 1854 - 1919
Bunshichi Kobayashi (C.L. Freer source) circa 1861 - 1923

Published References

Hiromichi Shugio. Japanese art folio. Tokyo, 1898-1901. pl. 24.
Ernest Francisco Fenollosa. Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings of Hokusai: Held at the Japan Fine Art Association, Uyeno Park, Tókio, from 13th to 30th January, 1900. Exh. cat. Tokyo, January 13 - 30, 1900. no. 167 A, B, C.
Hokusai nikuhitsuga taisei (Compilation of paintings by Hokusai). Tokyo. nos. 78-79.
Harold P. Stern Narasaki Muneshige. Ukiyo-e shuka. vol. 16, Tokyo. nos. 131-142.
Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from The Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Exh. cat. Chicago and Saint Louis. pp. 18-19, 26-27, fig. 8a-b.
unknown title., no. 86. Ra'anana. p. 25.
Julia Meech. The Early Years of Japanese Print Collecting in North America. no. 25. pp. 26-27, fig. 12.
Ann Yonemura et al. Hokusai: Volume Two. Exh. cat. Washington, 2006. cat. 89, p. 33, 78.
Harold P. Stern. Hokusai: Paintings and Drawings in the Freer Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Washington. cat. 31-32, p. 34-35.
Alma Ruiz Henri Focillon. Poetics of the Handmade: Exhibition presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 22 April-13 August 2007. Exh. cat. Los Angeles. p. 36.
Ann Yonemura. Hokusai: Volume One. Exh. cat. Washington, 2006. cat. 49, p. 67-71.