- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1979.19
- People
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Soga Shōhaku 曾我蕭白, Japanese (Ise 1730 - 1781 Kyoto)
- Title
- Branch of Blossoming Plum
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting, hanging scroll
- Date
- Mid Edo period, circa 1770
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/202491
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H. 35.5 x W. 48.3 cm (14 x 19 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Soga
- seal: red, square, intaglio artist's seal following signature: Jasokuken Shōhaku
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
- Accession Year
- 1979
- Object Number
- 1979.19
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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John M. Rosenfield, The Japanese Courtier: Painting, Calligraphy, and Poetry from the Fogg Art Museum, the Philip Hofer Collection (With a Complementary Selection of Lacquers and Other Arts of Japan from the Collection of F. Bailey Vanderhoef, Jr.), exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA, 1980), Cat. No. 27 / p. 42
- Exhibition History
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Masterworks of East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/03/1995 - 06/09/1996
Cultivating Virtue: Botanical Motifs and Symbols in East Asian Art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/2012 - 06/01/2013
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