Artist
Kantei
(鑑貞; fl. second half of 15th century)
Catalogue information
Muromachi period
Pair of hanging scrolls; ink and light color on paper
Scroll i (left): 47.6 x 30.1 cm (18 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.)
Scroll ii (right): 46 x 30.1 cm (18 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Kusaba Akira, Tokyo; Hachisuka Yoshiaki, Tokyo
Literature
“Kantei hitsu Sansui zu” 1898, pp. 167, 169
; 1898
“Kantei hitsu Sansui zu” (“Landscape,” by Kantei). Kokka, no. 105 (June): 167–69.
Hasumi Shigeyasu 1935
; 1935
“Nara Hōgen Kantei.” Nihon bijutsu kyōkai hōkoku, n.s., no. 38 (October): 1–7.
Matsushita Takaaki 1960, no. 35
; 1960
Muromachi suibokuga (Suiboku painting of the Muromachi period). Tokyo: Muromachi Suibokuga Kankōkai.
Muraki Chii 1960, fig. 4
; 1960
“Kusaba Akira shi” (Mr. Aira Kusaba). Nihon bijutsu kōgei, no. 260 (May): 42–48.
Matsushita Takaaki 1967, fig. 121
; 1967
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Shimada Shūjirō 1969, vol. 1, p. 121
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[Editor]. Zaigai hihō: Ōbei shūzō Nihon kaiga shūsei (Japanese paintings in Western collections). Vol. 1, Bukkyō kaiga, yamato-e, suibokuga (Buddhist painting, yamato-e, and ink painting). Vol. 2, Shōbyōga, Rinpa, bunjinga (Screen paintings, rinpa, and literati painting). Vol. 3, Nikuhitsu ukiyoe (Hand-painted ukiyo-e). Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.
Stanley-Baker 1974, fig. 17
; 1974
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[Editor]. Suibokuga (Ink painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 3. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.
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2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Ink Painting of the Muromachi and Momoyama Periods
- Hanging scrolls
- Works of the Muromachi period
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 107 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Seals
[on each scroll] Kantei