Artist
Genki
(源琦, also known as Komai Ki [駒井 琦]; 1747–1797)
Catalogue information
Edo period
Handscroll; ink and color on silk
32.5 x 507.8 cm (12 3/4 in. x 16 ft. 7 7/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Murase 1975, no. 63
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
L. Cunningham 1984, no. 8
; 1984
The Spirit of Place: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery.
Chiba Municipal Museum 1996b, no. 80.
1996b
Shukufuku sareta shiki: Kinsei Nihon kaiga no shosō (Celebrated four seasons: Various aspects of Japanese paintings from the 16th to the 19th century). Exh. cat. Chiba: Chiba Municipal Museum.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Maruyama-Shijō School
- Handscrolls
- Works of the Edo period
- Works by Genki
- This work shares a subject and composition originated by Ōkyo with Preparatory drawing for scroll of the Four Seasons in Kyoto
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 393 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[“Summer”] Genki
[“Winter”] Painted by Genki, late winter of 1778
Seals
[on each scene] Genki no in