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
; 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.
Murase 1975, no. 37
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Etō Shun 1979, no. 67
; 1979
Sōami, Shōkei. Nihon bijutsu kaiga zenshū (Survey of Japanese painting), 6. Tokyo: Shūeisha.
Nakamura Tanio 1985, p. 131
; 1985
“Koka ni hisui zu: Senka Sōsetsu hitsu” (“Withered Lotus Leaf and a Kingfisher,” by Senka Sōsetsu). Kobijutsu, no. 76 (October): 129–33.
Tochigi Prefectural Museum and Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History 1998, p. 181, fig. 20
; 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.
Murase 2000, no. 52.
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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 116 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Seals
[on each scroll] Shōkei