The Burke Collection
Boats on the Sea
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179-combined
179-1
179-2

Artist

Studio of Tawaraya Sōtatsu

(俵屋宗達工房)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 17th century

Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold, and silver on paper

Each screen 154.5 x 357.8 cm (60 7/8 in. x 11 ft. 8 7/8 in.)

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

Literature

Burke 1993, pp. 40–41, no. 25
Burke, Mary Griggs
1993
Japanese Art: Personal Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Delray Beach, Fla.: The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.

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Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art et al. 2005, no. 133.
Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Kyoto Cultural Museum, and Tōhoku Historical Museum [Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art et al.]
2005
Nihon Sankei ten: Matsushima, Amano hashidate, Itsukushima (The three great views of Japan—Matsushima, Amanohashidate, Itsukushima). Exh. cat., Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Kyoto Cultural Museum, and Tōhoku Historical Museum. Hiroshima: Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 179 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D179-1
D179-1

Signatures

[on each screen] Sōtatsu hokkyō

Seals

[on each screen] Taiseiken