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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.492.18
People
Kanze Tadachika (Kokusetsu), Japanese (1566 - 1626)
Title
Twenty Nō Plays (Yōkyoku nijūban), 18th of 20 Volumes
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Yōkyoku nijūban
Classification
Calligraphy
Work Type
calligraphy
Date
Early Edo period, 1625 (11th month)
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/92616

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Twenty manuscript books; ink on paper, with cover paintings in gold pigment on indigo-dyed paper
Dimensions
24 x 17.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: each volume signed and dated: Kokusetsu, 1625

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
1985.492.18
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John M. Rosenfield, Fumiko Cranston, and Edwin A. Cranston, The Courtly Tradition in Japanese Art and Literature: Selections from the Hofer and Hyde Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), Cat. No. 88 / pp. 259-262
  • 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. 20 / p. 35 (not illustrated)

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