Imperial Anthology, <em>Kokinshu</em> 花鳥下絵和歌巻
date: label: Date
content: early 1600s
label: Period
content: Momoyama period
name: label: Artist
content: Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)
label: Calligrapher
content: Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)
notes: label: Description
content: Scroll, consisting of 11 sheets of poems removed from backs of 4 doors, F1903.138-141, inclusive. Makimono.
label: Label
content: A collaborative work combining fine handmade paper, woodblock-printed designs in gold and silver, and calligraphy, this handscroll was reassembled from sheets that had been pasted in sections on the back of set of sliding paper doors (fusuma). Innovative artistic techniques were developed by the collaboration of a talented group of artists in Kyoto during the early seventeenth century. Sotatsu, a painter of fans and large folding screens, favored a painting technique that used pigments with water to create a pooled effect. These woodblock-printed designs of vines, cranes, and bamboo employ a similar techique. Control of scale, rhythm, and ink tone in Koetsu's calligraphy of Japanese poems provides a dynamic counterpoint to the underlying design.
label: Provenance
content: To 1903
label: Provenance
content: Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1903 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1903 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi in 1903 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Voucher 26, October 1903, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Accession List, Collections Management office.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
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: Rinpa Screens (February 25, 2023 to February 24, 2024)
label: Exhibition History
content: Sotatsu: Making Waves (Saturday, October 24, 2015 to Sunday, January 31, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Art in the Age of Koetsu (June 6, 1998 to February 15, 1999)
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 June 27, 1994)
label: Exhibition History
content: From Concept to Context: Approaches to Asian and Islamic Calligraphy (July 28, 1986 to February 6, 1987)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Calligraphy (December 21, 1984 to November 7, 1985)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Calligraphy (April 18, 1977 to September 13, 1977)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Art (October 2, 1975 to October 8, 1976)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Art—Paintings (September 16, 1970 to May 2, 1973)
label: Exhibition History
content: Special Exhibition—Japanese Art (October 16, 1963 to August 18, 1967)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七 (ca. 1861-1923) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: crane
label: Topic
content: Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: makimono
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
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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: F1903.309
objectType: label: Type
content: Calligraphy
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ink, gold, silver, and mica on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 33 x 968.3 cm (13 x 381 1/4 in)