Artist
Shibata Zeshin
(柴田是真; 1807–1891)
Catalogue information
Meiji era, 1882
Pair of two-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
Each screen 168.6 x 166 cm (66 3/8 x 65 3/8 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Roger and Kathleen Weston, Chicago
Literature
Gōke Tadaomi 1974, fig. 78
; Gōke Tadaomi 1981, vol. 1, nos. 209, 210
; 1981
Shibata Zeshin meihinshū: Bakumatsu kaikaki no shikkō kaiga (Masterpieces by Shibata Zeshin: Painting and lacquerware from the late Edo and early Meiji periods). 2 vols. Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.
Murase 1990, no. 33
; 1990
Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting: The American Collections. New York: George Braziller.
Murase 1993, no. 54
; 1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
Murase 2000, no. 122
; 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. 88.
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
- Japanese paintings » Maruyama-Shijō School
- Screens
- Works of the Meiji period
- Works by Shibata Zeshin
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 412 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[on right screen] Old Zeshin at age 75
[on left screen] Zeshin
Seals
[on each screen] Tairyūkyo