Catalogue information
Edo period, ca. 1630
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper
Each screen 105.1 x 260.7 cm (41 3/8 in. x 8 ft. 6 5/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Kyotaru & Co.; Kimbel Art Museum, Fort Worth; Tachibana Tarō, Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture
Literature
Tsuji Nobuo 1968b, pp. 101–4
; Okamoto Yoshitomo and Takamizawa Tadao 1970, no. 5
; Sakamoto Mitsuru 1977, figs. 13, 68 (detail), 114 (detail)
; 1977
[Editor]. Nanban byōbu (Nanban screen painting). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 135. Tokyo: Shibundō.
The Age of Navigation and Japan 1978, pp. 67, 69 (detail)
; Murase 2003, no. 121
; 2003
[Editor]. Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 77
; 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.
Sakamoto Mitsuru 2008, pp. 136–39, no. 37
; 2008
Nanban byōbu shūsei (Survey of screen paintings of Nanban). Tokyo: Chūōkōron Bijutsu.
Weston 2013, nos. 36a, b.
2013
[Editor]. Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan: Spiritual Beliefs and Earthly Goods. Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College.
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 219 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.