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Identification and Creation

Object Number
TL42642.5
People
Tani Bunchō 谷文晁, Japanese (Edo 1763 - 1841)
Title
Mount Fuji
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
hanging scroll, painting
Date
1802
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340359

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2600, East Asian Art, East Asian Painting and Decorative Arts
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
image only: 94 x 170.6 cm (37 x 67 3/16 in.)
with mount: 235 x 194 cm (92 1/2 x 76 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: 壬戌小春写于水雲書屋 文晁 [Painted by Bunchō at the Studio of Water and Clouds in the tenth month of the stem year Jinjutsu (mizunoe- inu; 1802)]
  • seal: square, relief: 谷文晁写 [Painted by Tani Bunchō]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Object Number
TL42642.5
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection, exh. cat., Yomiuri Shinbunsha (Tokyo, 2013), p. 97, cat. 38
  • Musée Cernuschi, Le Japon au fil des saisons: Collection Robert et Betsy Feinberg, exh. cat., Paris-Musées (Paris, 2014), pp. 126-129
  • Rachel Saunders, "Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection", Orientations, Orientations Magazine (Hong Kong, January/February 2020), vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 20-33, p. 30, fig. 10
  • Rachel Saunders and Yukio Lippit, Painting Edo: Selections from the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2020), p. 17, fig. 4
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 32-33, cat. 18

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

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