- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2017.80.2
- People
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Watanabe Kōkan 渡辺公観 (1877 - 1938)
- Title
- This Morning's Autumn (left)
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 今朝の秋 Kesa no aki
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- screen, painting
- Date
- 1918 (Taishō 7)
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/358130
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Left screen for a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gold
- Dimensions
- each screen: 172 × 363 cm (67 11/16 × 142 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Kōkan 公観 (bottom of panel 6, right screen)
- inscription: None
- Provenance
- Private Collection, Japan, (1918-2016), sold. [Art market, Kyoto, (2016-2017)], sold; to [Erik Thomsen Gallery, New York, 2017)], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Acquired with a fund established by Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane for the purchase of Asian art
- Accession Year
- 2017
- Object Number
- 2017.80.2
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Pair of six-panel folding screens painted by Nihonga painter Watanabe Kōkan (1877-1938) depicting a woodswoman (Oharame) tying her headscarf in front of a mill as she prepares for work on an early autumn morning. Exhibited at the 1918 Bunten exhibition.
- Related Works
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