Catalogue information
Edo period, first half of 17th century
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gilded paper
Each screen 153.6 x 348.6 cm (60 1/2 in. x 11 ft. 5 1/4 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Murase 1990, no. 22
; 1990
Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting: The American Collections. New York: George Braziller.
Murase 1993, no. 50
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Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
Murase 2000, no. 140
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Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Buckland 2004, no. 9
; 2004
Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society.
Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art et al. 2005, no. 31
; 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.
Miyake Hidekazu 2005, figs. 2, 6–8 (details), 11–13 (details), 15–16 (details)
; 2005
“Kinsei meisho zu byōbu no Yoshino to Itsukushima: Sono kumiawase to Toyotomi seiken to no kakawari ni tsuite” (Yoshino and Itsukushima in the early-modern folding screens of celebrated places—The relationship between the thematic combination of these places and the Toyotomi regime). Gakushūin Daigaku jinbungaku ronshū (Compilation of papers in the humanities from the faculty of Gakushūin University), 14. Tokyo: Gakushūin Daigaku.
Nihon sankei-ten 2005, pp. 66–67, pl. 31
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Nihon sankei-ten: Matsushima, Amanohashidate, Itsukushima (Exhibition of Japan’s three scenic spots: Matsushima, Amanohashidate, and Itsukushima). Exh. cat. Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Museum of Kyoto, and Tōhoku History Museum, Miyagi. Hiroshima: Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art.
Suzuki Hiroyuki 2007, p. 68, fig. 72. Miyake Hidekazu 2014, pp. 52-67, fig. 27.
2007
Meisho fūzokuzu (Genre paintings of famous places). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 491. Tokyo: Shibundō.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Screens by Unidentified Artists of the Momoyama and Edo Periods
- Screens
- Works of the Edo period
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 216 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.