Artist
Sakai Hōitsu
(酒井抱一; 1761–1828)
Catalogue information
Edo period, ca. 1805
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper
Each screen 96.5 x 208.8 cm (38 in. x 6 ft. 10 1/4 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Iwasaki, Tokyo
Literature
Honma Art Museum 1969, no. 18
; 1969
Sakai Hōitsu meisaku ten (Exhibition of Sakai Hōitsu’s masterpieces). Exh. cat. Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture: Honma Art Museum.
Yamane Yūzō 1977–80, vol. 5 (1978), pls. 10, 23, 24
; 1977–80
[Editor]. Rinpa kaiga zenshū (Survey of Rinpa paintings). Vols. 1–2, Sōtatsu ha I–II. Vols. 3–4, Korin ha I–II. Vol. 5, Hōitsu ha. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.
Chizawa Teiji 1981, fig. 40
; Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 45
; 1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.
Kobayashi Tadashi 1990, pl. 57
; 1990
[Editor]. Rinpa. Vol. 2, Kachō (Seasonal flowering plants and birds). Kyoto: Shikōsha, 1990.
Avitabile 1990, no. 59
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Nakamachi Keiko 1992a, pp. 1032–33
; Tamamushi Satoko 1997, pl. 10
; 1997
Sakai Hōitsu. Shinchō Nihon bijutsu bunko (Shincho Japanese art library), 18. Tokyo: Shinchōsha.
Murase 2000, no. 134
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 93
; 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.
Tamamushi Satoko 2008, p. 25
; 2008
Motto shiritai Sakai Hōitsu: Shōgai to sakuhin (I want to know more about Sakai Hōitsu: His training and oeuvre). Tokyo: Tōkyō Bijutsu.
Nakamachi Keiko 2010, pp. 64–67
; 2010
[Editor]. Edo Rinpa no suijin: Sakai Hōitsu (Sakai Hōitsu: A sophisticate of Edo Rinpa). Nihon no kokoro (Spirit of Japan), 177. Tokyo: Heibonsha.
McKelway 2012, p. 43 (detail), no. 7.
2012
Silver Wind: The Arts of Sakai Hōitsu (1761–1828). Exh. cat. New York: Japan Society Gallery.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 191 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[on each screen] Painted by Kishin
Seals
[on each screen] Hōitsu