1985.500.2: Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu), Copies of Buddhist Paintings, Vol. II
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.500.2
- People
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Kano Tan'yū 狩野探幽, Japanese (1602 - 1674)
- Title
- Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu), Copies of Buddhist Paintings, Vol. II
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Tan'yū shukuzu
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting, handscroll
- Date
- Early Edo period, dated 1668
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/191739
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Second of two handscrolls collecting copies of earlier Buddhist paintings; ink on paper; each sketch with a gourd-shaped vermilion seal reading "Seimei"
- Dimensions
- irregular: 22.1 x 575.3 cm (8 11/16 x 226 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: seal of Seimei
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- 1985.500.2
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- John M. Rosenfield, Fumiko Cranston, and Edwin A. Cranston, The Courtly Tradition in Japanese Art and Literature: Selections from the Hofer and Hyde Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), Cat. No. 30 / pp. 94-96
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/04/2023 - 06/03/2024
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