Beauty reclining as visitors approach
date: label: Date
content: Late 17th-early 18th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Tamura Suio (active 1680-1730)
notes: label: Description
content: Interior: a man coming to visit a woman lying on her bed. Ink, full color and gold powder. Signature and seal.
label: Signatures
content: Signature: Sui-o [Jap] shi no hitsu.
label: Marks
content: Seal: Sesshin [Jap].
label: Provenance
content: To 1900
label: Provenance
content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1900 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1900 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1900 [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] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Kakemono List, L. 226, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
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: Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer's Japanese Illustrated Books (April 6 to August 11, 2013)
label: Exhibition History
content: Life and Leisure: Everyday Life in Japanese Art (August 14, 2004 to February 20, 2005)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting (May 2, 1973 to July 1, 1974)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Art—Paintings, Pottery (August 18, 1967 to September 20, 1971)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: peony
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: woman
label: Topic
content: man
label: Topic
content: screen
label: Topic
content: sword
label: Topic
content: lantern
label: Topic
content: book
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: ukiyo-e
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: pipe
label: Topic
content: kimono
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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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: F1900.110
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 52.3 x 80.6 cm (20 9/16 x 31 3/4 in)