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Legends of Kyoyū (Ch. Xuyou, 許由) and Sōho (Ch. Chaofu, 巣父); Hakuraku (Ch. Bole, 伯樂)

By Soga Shōhaku

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Legends of Kyoyū and Sōho

Artist

Soga Shōhaku

(曽我蕭白; 1730–1781)

Catalogue information

Edo period, early 1760s

Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper

Each screen 93.1 x 261.4 cm (36 5/8 in. x 8 ft. 6 7/8 in.)

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

Literature

Tsuji Nobuo and Itō Shiori 1998, no. 66

Tsuji Nobuo and Itō Shiori

1998

[Editors]. Soga Shōhaku ten: Edo no kisai (Soga Shōhaku exhibition: Eccentric artists of the Edo period). Exh. cat., Chiba Municipal Museum and Mie Prefectural Art Museum. Asahi Shimbun.

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Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 101.

Tsuji Nobuo et al.

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.

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