River landscape
date: label: Date
content: Late 17th-early 18th century
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Unkoku Tohan 雲谷等璠
notes: label: School/Tradition
content: Unkoku
label: Description
content: River landscape. Signature and three seals. Paper makimono.
label: Signatures
content: Sesshū Rokuyo Unkoku Tōhan hitsu
label: Signatures
content: 雪舟六世雲谷等璠筆
label: Signatures
content: 雪舟六世雲谷等璠筆
label: Marks
content: Artist's seal: (gourd) Unkoku 雲谷
label: Marks
content: Artist's seal: (square) Hōgen 法眼
label: Marks
content: Artist's seal: (square) Hōgen 法眼
label: Label
content: Over the course of his long life, Tōhan headed the Unkoku studio in Hagi, located in today’s Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan. Like many of his forebears in the hereditary Unkoku lineage, Tōhan claimed artistic ancestry from the most venerated of Japanese ink painters, Sesshū. The Unkoku lineage mainly laid claim to that patrimony by safeguarding and copying Sesshū’s famous Long Landscape scroll in which he depicted a journey through an imagined Chinese terrain. This scroll is Tōhan’s copy of the seminal original, made to perpetuate his ties to Sesshū’s legacy.
label: Provenance
content: To 1904
label: Provenance
content: Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921), Kidderminster, England, to 1904 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1904 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Michael Tomkinson in 1904 [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 Original Makimono List, L. 451, pg. 121, 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: Mind Over Matter: Zen in Medieval Japan (March 5, 2022 - July 24, 2022)
label: Exhibition History
content: Zen, Tea, and Chinese Art in Medieval Japan (December 13, 2014 to June 14, 2015)
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: landscape
label: Topic
content: tree
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: mountain
label: Topic
content: river
label: Topic
content: boat
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: makimono
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
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: F1904.141
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ink and color on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 28.8 x 12.9 cm (11 5/16 x 5 1/16 in)