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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.352.1
People
Uragami Shunkin 浦上春琴, Japanese (Bizen 1779 - 1846)
Title
Precipitous Rocks (right screen)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, screen
Date
1843
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/356750

Location

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

Medium
Right screen of a pair of six-fold screens; ink on paper.
Dimensions
painting proper: H. 153.4 × W. 358.4 cm (60 3/8 × 141 1/8 in.)
overall, flexed open at 160-degree angle: H. 170.5 × W. 355.6 cm (67 1/8 × 140 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: signature : Shunkin (each screen)
  • seal: Senki (each screen)
  • seal: Suian (each screen)
  • inscription: Screen a. (left) "Deep Cliffs, Flying Cascade - painted by Shunkin sanjin."
  • inscription: Screen b. (right) "Strange Rocks, Winding Stream - summer, 5th month of the year 1843. Made by the old man Shunkin in the Bunryoen (Garden of Listening to the Cool)."

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Nishimura Kichiemon, Kyoto. [James Freeman, Kyoto (2001), sold; to Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (2001-2018), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.352.1
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Rachel Saunders and Yukio Lippit, Painting Edo: Selections from the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2020), pp. 84-86, fig. 73

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/08/2024 - 12/02/2024

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