Landscape with Mount Fuji and Matsubara Pine Forest
date: label: Date
content: 1669
label: Period
content: Edo period
name: label: Artist
content: Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽 (1602-1674)
notes: label: Description
content: Signature and two seals.
label: Signatures
content: Signed on both screens: Hoin Tanyu gyonen roku-ju-hachi sai (aged 68 years) fude.
label: Marks
content: Contains two seals. Seals read: "Kunaisho Kyo, Head of the Imperial Household Ministry."
label: Label
content: The grove of pines at Miho, a scenic site in Shizuoka Prefecture, offers a magnificent view of Mount Fuji. Revered since ancient times as a sacred mountain, Mount Fuji appears as a pale apparition, blanketed with snow in midwinter. Fully expressed here is Kano Tanyu's mastery of subtle ink-wash techniques derived from his synthesis of Chinese and Japanese painting methods. His inscription at the age of sixty-eight includes an honorific hoin, a Buddhist ecclesiastical title for artists of high accomplishment. His seal reads: "Kunaisho Kyo, Head of the Imperial Household Ministry."
label: Provenance
content: To 1897
label: Provenance
content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1897 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1897 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1897 [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 Screen List, S.I. 40, pg. 2, 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: For Love of Place (May 5 to November 4, 2018)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Screens (March 2007 to January 3, 2016)
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: landscape
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Mount Fuji
label: Topic
content: cloud
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
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: F1897.22-23
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (.22): 154.6 x 361.2 cm (60 7/8 x 142 3/16 in)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (.23): 154.8 x 361.3 cm (60 15/16 x 142 1/4 in)