Artist
Sakai Ōho
(酒井鶯蒲; 1808–1841)
Catalogue information
Edo period, ca. 1839
Six handscrolls; ink, color and gold on silk
Each handscroll approx. 9 x 119.6 cm (3 1/2 x 47 1/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Murashige Yasushi and Kobayashi Tadashi 1992, suppl. 3, no. 111
; 1992
[Editors]. Rinpa. Vol. 5, Sōgō (Assorted themes; Supplementary works). Kyoto: Shikōsha, 1992.
Murase 1993, no. 39
; 1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
Yasumura Toshinobu 1993, nos. 94–101
; 1993
Hōitsu to Edo Rinpa (Hōitsu and Rinpa in Edo). Rinpa Bijutsukan (Rinpa Museum), 3. Tokyo: Shūeisha.
Murase 1995, pp. 94–97
; 1995
“The Evolution of Meisho-e and the Case of Mu Tamagawa.” Orientations 26, no. 1 (January): 94–100.
Murase 2000, no. 138
; 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. 96
; 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.
Nakamachi Keiko 2010, pp. 156–57
; 2010
[Editor]. Edo Rinpa no suijin: Sakai Hōitsu (Sakai Hōitsu: A sophisticate of Edo Rinpa). Nihon no kokoro (Spirit of Japan), 177. Tokyo: Heibonsha.
Carpenter 2012, no. 38 (Kinuta no Tamagawa).
2012
Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Rinpa
- Handscrolls
- Works of the Edo period
- Works by Sakai Ōho
- This work shares a subject and closely related compositions, including identical figure groupings, with Shokoku Mu Tamagawa (諸國六玉川 / Six Tamagawa Rivers from Different Regions)
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 202 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[on each scroll] By Ōho
Seals
[on each scroll] Hansei