H x W (image): 108.3 × 60.1 cm (42 5/8 × 23 11/16 in)
Type:
Painting
Origin:
Japan
Date:
mid 18th-early 19th century
Period:
Edo period
Description:
Landscape, foreground small island with trees, rocks, a small round thatched-roof hut in which a tiny figure is seated, and a round flat plateau with three figures, also with two narrow bridges extending to right and left, one with a small figure; midground lake extending back to a rocky shore below a high peak and two subsidiary peaks, signed and with two seals of the artist
Signatures:
Signed.
Marks:
Two seals of the artist.
Provenance:
To 2008
Shibunkaku, Kyoto [1]
From 2008 to 2018
Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, WA, purchased from Shibunkaku on November 1, 2008 [2]
From 2018
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, Washington [3]
Notes:
[1] Per information provided by the Cowles. See Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection 2018 Gift List for Freer/Sackler, object file, Collections Management.
[2] See note 1.
[3] See Deed of Gift, object file, Collections Management Office.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Imagined Neighbors: Japanese Visions of China, 1680–1980 (March 16 to September 3, 2024)