The Burke Collection
Pair of Wagtails
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Artist

Kenkō Shōkei

(賢江祥啓; fl. ca. 1470–ca. 1518)

Catalogue information

Muromachi period

Pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper

Each scroll 38.5 x 58 cm (15 1/8 x 22 7/8 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Literature

Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History 1972, fig. 62
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
1972
Kamakura no suibokuga: Gasō Shōkei no shūhen; Tokubetsuten (Special exhibition: Ink painting of the Kamakura period: The monk-painter Shōkei and his milieu). Exh. cat. Yokohama: Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History.

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Murase 1975, no. 37
Murase, Miyeko
1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Etō Shun 1979, no. 67
Etō Shun
1979
Sōami, Shōkei. Nihon bijutsu kaiga zenshū (Survey of Japanese painting), 6. Tokyo: Shūeisha.

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Nakamura Tanio 1985, p. 131
Nakamura Tanio
1985
“Koka ni hisui zu: Senka Sōsetsu hitsu” (“Withered Lotus Leaf and a Kingfisher,” by Senka Sōsetsu). Kobijutsu, no. 76 (October): 129–33.

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Tochigi Prefectural Museum and Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History 1998, p. 181, fig. 20
Tochigi Prefectural Museum and Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
1998
Kantō suibokuga no nihyakunen: Chūsei ni miru kata to imēji no keifu (Two hundred years of ink painting in the Kantō region: Lineage of stylistic models and themes in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Japan). Exh. cat. Utsunomiya: Tochigi Prefectural Museum; Yokohama: Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History.

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Murase 2000, no. 52.
Murase, Miyeko
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Additional details

D116-1
D116-1

Seals

[on each scroll] Shōkei