Thatched huts along a shoreline from the <em>Three Dusks</em>
date: label: Date
content: 1665
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674)
notes: label: Label
content: This painting belongs to a set of three by Kano Tan'yu, a leading painter of the Kano school of professional artists. Inspiration for the paintings came from groups of poems known as the "Three Dusks" or "Three Evening Poems." The verse inscribed on this painting was composed by Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241):
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content: I gaze afar
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content: And ask for neither cherry flowers
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content: Nor crimson leaves:
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content: The inlet with its grass-thatched huts
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content: Clustered in the growing autumn dusk.
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content: Translation by Robert H. Brower and Earl Miner, Japanese Court Poetry (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961)
label: Provenance
content: To 1904
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content: Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921), Kidderminster, England, to 1904 [1]
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content: From 1904 to 1919
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content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Michael Tomkinson in 1904 [2]
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content: From 1920
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content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
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content: Notes:
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content: [1] See Original Kakemono Reserved List, R. 397, pg. 10, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
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content: [2] See note 1.
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content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: More Than Flowers: Sources of Tradition in Japanese Painting (September 2, 2001 to November 24, 2002)
label: Exhibition History
content: Life of a Japanese Painting (December 1, 1995 to October 16, 1996)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Art (May 9, 1993 to August 1, 1994)
label: Exhibition History
content: Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Art—Autumn Voices (October 14, 1981 to December 16, 1981)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
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content: Japan
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content: kakemono
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content: Japanese Art
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content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1904.370
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ink and color on silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 30.5 × 44.8 cm (12 × 17 5/8 in)