- Gallery Text
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Tress-like waves roil in every direction around islets that host uncannily perfect pines. Others take the form of claws as they break, protectively encircling eddies as if clutching an eye, while rows of scaly bubbles on the humped backs of waves yet to crest hint at a vast reptilian presence beneath. This numinous marine scene is a re-adaptation of a hallmark image of the School of Kōrin, whose painters creatively copied specific motifs in order to affirm their affiliation with the lineage. Extant full-size folding screens by Tawaraya Sōtatsu (active c. 1600–1640) and Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716) and reproductions in woodblock-printed compilations of School of Kōrin paintings (such as those in the case below) demonstrate that several well-known versions of the subject existed. Here, Kiitsu has adapted the composition to suit the needs of this unusual, compact format.
- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- TL42096.15
- People
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Suzuki Kiitsu, Japanese (Omi Province 1796 - 1858)
- Title
- Waves at Matsushima
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1833–43
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/340481
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
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- Medium
- Set of four sliding doors; ink, color, and gold on paper; enameled door pulls
- Dimensions
- each: 24.1 × 40.7 cm (9 1/2 × 16 in.)
both panels in orginal frame: 28.6 × 98.5 cm (11 1/4 × 38 3/4 in.)
overall, board mounted on: 40.5 × 100 × 4 cm (15 15/16 × 39 3/8 × 1 9/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- seal: Seisei
- inscription: Kaikai Kiitsu hitsu
- seal: Motonaga
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
- Object Number
- TL42096.15
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection, exh. cat., Yomiuri Shinbunsha (Tokyo, 2013), pp. 58-59, cat. 15
Suntory Museum of Art, Himeji City Museum of Art, and Hosomi Art Museum, ed., Suzuki Kiitsu: Standard-bearer of the Edo Rimpa School, exh. cat., Yomiuri Shinbunsha (Tokyo, 2016-2017), pp. 74-75 and p. 278, cat. 46
Rachel Saunders and Yukio Lippit, Painting Edo: Selections from the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2020), pp. 48-49, figs. 36-37
- Exhibition History
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The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, 05/21/2013 - 07/15/2013; Miho Museum, 07/20/2013 - 08/18/2013; Tottori Prefectural Museum, 10/05/2013 - 11/10/2013
Suzuki Kiitsu: Standard-bearer of the Edo Rimpa School, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, 09/10/2016 - 10/30/2016; Himeji City Museum of Art, 11/12/2016 - 12/25/2016; Hosomi Art Museum, Kyoto, 01/03/2017 - 02/19/2017
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