Artist
Genki
(源琦, also known as Komai Ki [駒井 琦]; 1747–1797)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1785
Pair of hanging scrolls; ink, color and gold on silk
Each scroll 109.8 x 55.8 cm (43 1/4 x 22 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Nakamachi Keiko 1998, fig. 14
; 1998
“Nihon kinsei Bijutsu ni okeru Bunjinshumi no kenkyū 1” (A study of trends among Japanese literati artists of the early modern era, 1). Jissen Joshidai bigaku bijutsushigaku (Study in aesthetics and art history at Jissen Women’s University), 13.
Murase 2000, no. 116
; 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. 98.
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.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 394 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[on right scroll] Painted by Genki
[on left scroll] Painted by Genki, eighth month of 1785
Seals
[on each scroll] Genki no in
; Shion