page_title: Red and White Plum Blossoms
section_title: Provenance
hierarchical_section_title: Red and White Plum Blossoms / Provenance
caption_attribution_description: English: MOA Museum of Art, at Atami, Shizuoka Pref. Japan. 中文（繁體）‎: MOA美術館, 位於日本靜岡縣熱海市的民營美術館. 日本語: MOA美術館は、日本静岡県熱海市にある私立美術館である。
context_page_description: Red and White Plum Blossoms is an early 18th-century painting on a pair of two-panel byōbu folding screens by Japanese artist Ogata Kōrin. The simple, stylized composition depicts a patterned flowing river with a white plum tree on the left and a red one on the right. The plum blossoms indicate the scene occurs in spring.
  The work is one of the best-known paintings in Japan, where it is a registered National Treasure. It resides in the MOA Museum of Art in the city of Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture.
context_section_description: No documentation exists from before the 20th century on the commission or provenance of the screens.  They receive mention in no Edo-period publications on Kōrin's works and were not copied by his followers, which suggests they were not well known.  A journal article in 1907 is the first known publication about them, and their first public display came in a 200th-anniversary exhibition of Kōrin's work in 1915.
  Mokichi Okada began negotiations to purchase the screens in 1953 with the descendants of the daimyōs of the Tsugaru clan, who may have been the original owners; the transfer was concluded in 1954.  The screens reside at the MOA Museum of Art in the city of Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture, along with the rest of Okada's collection.  The museum displays the screens a month per year in late winter, the season when the plum blossoms bloom.  Nearby is a garden reproduction of the screens' subject: two hillocks dotted with 360 plum trees, the number of plum trees said to surround the shrine of Lin Bu, a Chinese poet renowned for writing about plum blossoms.  The display attracts large crowds.
caption: The MOA Museum of Art in the city of Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture displays the work each winter when plum blossoms are in bloom.
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