The Burke Collection
Chinese Children at Play
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397-combined
397-1
397-2

Artist

Nagasawa Rosetsu

(長沢蘆雪; 1754–1799)

Catalogue information

Edo period

Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and gold on paper

Each screen 168.7 x 360 cm (66 3/8 in. x 11 ft. 9 3/4 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Literature

Murase 1975, no. 62
Murase, Miyeko
1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 87
Avitabile, Gunhild
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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Amino Yoshihiko et al. 1991, pp. 332–33
Amino Yoshihiko, Ōnishi Hiroshi, and Satake Akihiro [Amino Yoshihiko et al.]
1991
[Editors]. Ten no hashi, chi no hashi (The heavenly bridge, the earthly bridge). Ima wa mukashi, mukashi wa ima (Present is past, past is present), 2. Tokyo: Fukuinkan Shoten.

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Guth 1992, color pls. 9a, b
Guth, Christine
1992
Asobi: Play in the Arts of Japan. Exh. cat., Katonah Museum of Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Katonah, N.Y.: Katonah Museum of Art.

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Murase 1992, pp. 254–55 (details).
Murase, Miyeko
1992
Il Giappone. Storia universale dell’arte: La civiltà dell’Oriente. Turin: UTET.

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Additional details

D397-1
D397-1

Signature

[on left screen] Rosetsu painted the spirit

Seals

[on left screen] Kun; Gyo